"Briggs, Rhona" <[log in to unmask]>typed
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> Insectiverous bats, I understand, carry European bat lyssavirus which is a
> strain of rabies that responds to rabies vaccine. There was a bat handler in
> Tayside who died of rabies a few years ago
> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1
> 2938204&dopt=AbstractPlus> &db=PubMed&list_uids=12938204&dopt=AbstractPlus)
> - a case I remembered when a bat handler phoned for advice having been
> bitten during my first A&E job. The only other thing I remember about it is
> that it was unbelievably difficult trying to get hold of the vaccine!
At least we were only 2 miles from Colindale! ;-)
(Needed to continue a course of rabies vaccine started in Asia following
a bite)
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Helen D. Vecht: [log in to unmask]
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