Rabies -- Pakistan
For the 2nd time in a week, a human rabies death has been reported at the Indus Hospital in Karachi. Last week, a 6-year-old boy died from the lethal virus, and this Tuesday [25 May 2021], a 24-year-old man succumbed to rabies.
A report from the Pakistani news source Dawn states that "the patients received improper and inadequate treatment at government hospitals."
In the case of the young child, who received bites to the face, rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) was never administered; proper
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8388429&promed&0
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