Diagnosis and Analysis of a Recent Case of Human Rabies in Canada

Autor: Lindsay D Elmgren, Susan A Nadin-Davis, Frances T Muldoon, Alexander I Wandeler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 129-133 (2002)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1180-2332
DOI: 10.1155/2002/235073
Popis: BACKGROUND: On September 30, 2000, staff at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Centre of Expertise for Rabies, located at the Animal Diseases Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, diagnosed rabies in a child from Quebec. This was the first case of rabies in a human in Canada in 15 years and in 36 years in the province of Quebec. After spending a week in intensive care in a Montreal hospital, the nine-year-old boy succumbed to this nearly always fatal disease. The boy had been exposed to a bat in late August 2000, while vacationing with his family in the Quebec countryside.
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