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RABIES, HUMAN - USA (VIRGINIA)
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003
From: Banks, A-Lan <A-Lan.Banks@derwent.co.uk>
Source: AP via Fredericksburg.com, 13 Jun 2003 [edited]
<http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2003/062003/06132003/1055500404>


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]

[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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