A person died 10 years after the dog bite. The doctors suspect the cause of death is rabies

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>Merritt Clifton <anmlpepl

>Re: Kala Santha: A person died 10 years after the dog

> bite. The doctors suspect the cause of death is rabies

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> Such cases are typical of bat rabies.

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> Bat bites usually leave no mark other than two tiny parallel

>pin-prick wounds that look like mild mosquito bites. In mosquito

>habitat the wounds are never noticed, and since people bitten by

>bats are often bitten while asleep, they rarely are aware that they

>were bitten.

>

> After rabies develops, the only bite that anyone can

>remember is a long-ago dog bite, but if anyone does the seriotyping

>necessary to identify the source of rabies infection, the source

>turns out to be a bat bite, typically about two months earlier.

>

> I have details of several such cases on file, including

>those of a girl in upstate New York in 1993, a boy in Texas in

>1997, and two cases in Costa Rica in 2001, which were covered by

>ANIMAL PEOPLE, since each case initially generated panic about

>rabies in cats and dogs, but was eventually traced to bats.

>

> --Merritt Clifton, editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE.

>

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>>>A paediatrician in Sri lanka has sent me the following information

>>>yesterday .

>>>She told me that the following death was reported in a Sinhala Newspaper and

>>>the people who have children were panicked and they have given up keeping

>>>dogs as pets.She was having a difficult time answering the parents whose

>>>children were bitten by dogs .She has sent the information to a human rabies

>>>expert but still didn`t get a reply.

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>>>In November 2004 a youth named Pushpakumara from Beruwela was getting

>>>treatment for severe back pain .

>>>But the doctors couldn`t diagnosed the cause for that pain.

>>>Then he had severe back pain and fever .His father has taken him to Nagoda

>>>Hospital.There was no progress and

>>>after 3 days his condition became worse.

>>>The doctor asked whether he was bitten by a dog.The youth replied saying

>>>that 10 years ago he was bitten by his petdog.He didn`t get any treatment

>>>for that .

>>>After 3 days the behaviour of the youth changed and he tried to attack the

>>>people .He was trying to bite the people.They had to tie him in his bed .

>>>The coroner has mentioned that he suspect the cause of death is rabies.

>>>

>>>Kala Santha

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