Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011

• Author(s): Santos, A ; Calé, Etelvina ; Dacheux, L ; Bourhy, H ; Gouveia, J ; Vasconcelos, Paula
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/9897
• Origin: Direção-Geral da Saúde
• Subject(s): Raiva; Doenças infeciosas; Portugal
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Comum

Description

We report on a case of imported human rabies in Portugal, in July 2011 in a woman who presented initially complaining of back pain, without relating exposure to animal bites. She had travelled from Portugal to Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, in April where she had been bitten by a dog on 1 May. She was diagnosed with rabies on 26 July and died two weeks later in spite of being treated following the Milwaukee protocol.