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

Euro Surveill. 2012 Mar 22;17(12):20130.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Bites and Stings / complications*
  • Contact Tracing
  • Dog Diseases / transmission
  • Dogs
  • Female
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Humans
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Portugal
  • Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
  • Rabies / diagnosis*
  • Rabies / drug therapy
  • Rabies / mortality
  • Rabies Vaccines / administration & dosage
  • Rabies virus / genetics
  • Rabies virus / isolation & purification*
  • Saliva / virology
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • Rabies Vaccines