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In the United States, a man in his 80s died from ‘human rabies’.
Foreign media such as the AP on the 29th of last month, citing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the 29th of last month, a man in his 80s living in Lake County, Illinois, was bitten by a bat in mid-August and eventually contracted rabies. reported to have died.
At that time, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) caught the bat and tested it for rabies, and it was reported that it was reported to Mr.
Health authorities recommended him to get a rabies vaccine, but Mr. A is known to have refused treatment.
It is not known why Mr. A refused treatment.
After about a month, Mr. A showed symptoms of human rabies. He showed symptoms such as severe pain in the neck, headache, and paralysis of arms and fingers, and symptoms such as difficulty breathing and speech problems, and his condition worsened and eventually passed away.
After Mr. A’s death, Illinois health officials said they had found a swarm of bats in his home.
It is the first human rabies death since 1954 in Illinois, USA. The U.S. Department of Health said it had found 30 bats that tested positive for rabies this year in Illinois alone.
Connie Austin, a public health veterinarian in Illinois, said in an interview with the local media, “Human rabies is almost impossible to treat once symptoms begin to appear. “He said. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also said that the rabies virus “is fatal, affecting the central nervous system.”
According to a 2019 CDC report, the majority of human rabies cases in the United States were attributed to bats.
In the United States, rabies was mostly caused by dog bites until the 1950s, but the number of cases of rabies has decreased with the compulsory vaccination of companion animals. Since the 1960s, the number of cases of rabies virus being transmitted through contact with wild animals such as bats has increased.
In fact, when the CDC looked at the rabies trend in the United States for about 80 years, from 1938 to 2018, it found that about 70% of those infected were transmitted by the virus through bat bites or scrapes.
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