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In one monitoring the human rabies situation in SarawakIn Malaysia, health officials reported an additional case of mortality and human rabies.
The new case involved an 80-year-old woman from Kampung Sg. Du'uh, Jalan Kuching-Serian, Serian, Sarawak, who received scratches from her dog while arguing with their cat.
The victim had washed the wound with alcohol and was no longer seeking treatment. The dog was dead the next day. The dog has never received rabies vaccine and was free to move.
On January 11, 2019, the victim had fever, cough, vomiting, lethargy, body aches and weakness in her left hand and was treated at a private clinic on the same day.
However, the victim did not inform him that he had been bitten by a dog.
The victim was referred to the Sarawak General Hospital on January 14, 2019, by the same private clinic when the symptoms did not fade since the resumption of treatment. The disease is severely affected by neurological symptoms, including hydrophobia. The victim died on 18 January 2019 at 9:35.
Clinical case samples were certified anti-rabies by the Institute of Medical Research (IMR) on January 18, 2019.
With this latter case, the case of rabies confirmed among humans in Sarawak since the declaration of the outbreak from July 1, 2017 until January 18, 2019 was 17 cases, including 16 deaths.
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