the Patient traveled with a company in Southeast asia for two months ago and then was bitten by a dog. The hospital stated that her symptomatology gradually increased, and Thursday’s test results analysed by the Swedish Folkhälsomyndigheten shows that the case of rabies.
the company was not bitten by the dog, but was in contact with it, and have in their communities, in Norway received preventive treatment. The disease is almost always fatal once symptoms started to show, according to Folkhälsomyndigheten.
Rabies is spread as far as it is known only from animals to humans, with the exception of a single case of organ transplantation, but the hospital take still tighter smittskyddsåtgärder. Tens of thousands of people die annually of a virus disease, mainly in Asia and Africa.
since 1886, but has as well as the current case in Norway had two patients who have been infected abroad, the latest of more than 40 years. In 1974, it was one man who has been infected in India and 2000 there was a woman who vacationed in Thailand – both of which had been hundbitna and they both died.
Rabies is a viral disease of the central nervous system that is fatal if you do not get early treatment. It is transmitted from mammals to humans via the saliva, and even if the dogs are behind almost 99% of all people infected can, amongst other things, monkeys, cats, foxes and bats carry and transmit the virus.
