[Jacob-list] Fwd: PRO/AH/EDR> Rabies, human - USA (VA)

[Katherine Wisor]

Good reading:>Katherine

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> Date: Fri Jun 13, 2003  1:06:37 PM US/Pacific
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> Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Rabies, human - USA (VA)
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> RABIES, HUMAN - USA (VIRGINIA)
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> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003
> From: Banks, A-Lan <A-Lan.Banks at derwent.co.uk>
> Source: AP via Fredericksburg.com, 13 Jun 2003 [edited]
> <http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2003/062003/06132003/10555
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> Rabies kills northern Virginia man
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> A northern Virginia man is dead from rabies, the state's first fatal
> case in nearly 5 years. The man died in mid-March 2003, but the
> diagnosis wasn't confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control until
> this week.
>
> The Virginia Department of Health won't say exactly where in
> northern Virginia the man was from, or give the precise date of
> death [or whether the suspected source was canine or bat bite? -
> Mod.JW]. Spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell says health officials are
> now working with people who'd been in close contact with him.
> They're also trying to figure out how he got rabies, which Caldwell
> says a person can have and not realize.
>
> The last fatal rabies cases in Virginia was in December 1998, when
> a prisoner died at the Nottoway Correctional Center. That was the
> first rabies case Virginia had seen since 1953, and was blamed on
> a bat.
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> [Further details awaited from John Marr or other knowledgeable
> person. - Mod.JW]
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> [see also:
> 2002
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> Rabies, human - USA (Iowa) 20021002.5442
> Rabies, human and bat - USA (Tennessee): alert 20020913.5298
> Rabies, human, bat - USA (California) 20020810.5016
> 2001
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> Rabies, cat, human exposure - USA (Wyoming) 20010416.0753
> Rabies, dog (human exposure) - USA (North Carolina) (02)
> 20010306.0458
> Rabies: bats, skunks (human exposure) - USA (Texas)
> 20010209.0265
> 2000
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> Rabies, fox, human exposure - USA (Arizona) 20001223.2266
> Rabies, human - USA: MMWR reports 20001218.2215
> Rabies, canine, human exposure - USA (Texas): alert
> 20001214.2184
> Rabies, human - USA (Wisconsin) 20001130.2084
> Rabies, canine, human exposure - USA (Minnesota): alert
> 20001115.1993
> Rabies, human - USA (Georgia) 20001015.1767
> Rabies, human - USA (New York) (02) 20001012.1746 ]
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