CHARLESTON (South Carolina) (Reuters) - a woman of middle age in South Carolina in more than 50 years that the State of human rabies has suffered first case, health officials said Friday.
"There are only about one to three cases of human rabies every year in this country," said Dr. Eric writer, epidemiologist with the State Department of health and environmental control Bureau of disease control.
"Tragically, rabies almost always ends in death," he said in a statement.
Burner, said that health officials believe that the woman, who was probably bitten by a bat that her home a few months ago entered.
Slowly by the body of travel until it reaches the brain and central nervous system and difficulty swallowing, seizures, anxiety, agitation and confusion, produces severe symptoms such as headaches, he said "Rabies". "Most patients die within a few weeks after onset of symptoms."
To prevent that the Department through said the patients or their State of health and environmental control spokesman Jim Beasley the release of more information about Federal medical privacy laws.
The woman lives in Sumter County, in the middle of the State, officials said.
Bites of rabies infected bats are one who most commonly used, as people are exposed, said art writer,. Raccoons, foxes, skunks, and other wild animals, and are Unvaccinated dogs and cats can transfer rabies through their saliva in a bite wound.
South Carolina law requires all dogs, cats and ferrets to be vaccinated against rabies.
The Agency said that it is examined to determine whether anyone else could have exposed the virus. By hand transfer not, documented by rabies with the exception of special circumstances in medical settings, Brenner said.
The last cases of human rabies in South Carolina were Beasley of told of Reuters in December 1959, when an elderly man Florence County was bitten by a dog, and in March 1958 as an older woman Clarendon County was bitten by a Fox.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Greg McCune)
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