We read Bhadra’s rejoinder to our letter with interest and disappointment. Not only has she failed to counter the main criticisms of our response to Majumder et al.3, she has made fairly serious allegations of scientific impropriety on our part. She has also alleged that we have inflated figures of dog bite cases in India by three orders of magnitude. Unfortunately, her conclusion is flawed and arises from a misreading and misunderstanding of both our original statement as well as the primary literature that was cited.