51. Rabies risk from contact with bats
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Hilary Kirkbride, Lesley Larkin, Dilys Morgan, and Kevin K. Brown
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animal structures ,General Veterinary ,Rabies ,General Medicine ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,United Kingdom ,Rabies Vaccines ,Chiroptera ,Rhabdoviridae Infections ,Zoonoses ,European bat lyssavirus ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Lyssavirus - Abstract
SIR, — Earlier this year European bat lyssavirus (eblv) type 2 — a rabies-like virus that can cause rabies in humans — was confirmed in an injured bat. Six bat handlers who had been involved in the care of the bat, and the private veterinary surgeon who had operated to remove the bat's wing
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- 2008
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