Death from rabies
NZPA-AP Hamburg A young British woman has died of rabies at the Hamburg University Hospital, hospital officials said. The woman apparently was infected after being bitten by a dog during a trip to India three months ago, officials said. She had originally been taken to a Hamburg psychiatric clinic for observation because she had been acting strangely. However, after doctors realised she was having trouble breathing, they tested the patient for ra-
bies. A hospital spokeswoman declined to identify the victim, give her age or provide further details on the case, saying information/ on patients was confidential. Rabies, whose official medical name is hydrophobia, is caused by a virus transmitted through the saliva of animals, usually through a bite. Unless it is treated in its early stages through injections, it is usually fatal. The incubation period in humans is 10 days to more than a year.
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Press, 19 June 1986, Page 6
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