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Bill Gates throws £6m lifeline to Scots team fighting rabies killer
(The Scotsman 21/09/2009)
PIONEERING Scots researchers have secured a £6 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help save the lives of more than 100 children a day from rabies. Scientists from the University of Glasgow will help the World Health Organisation tackle the disease in Africa and south-east Asia by targeting an estimated 1.5 million domestic dogs with vaccines. It is the first time the prestigious charitable organisation, has given money to protect human health through treating animals.
Rabies travel health advice: How to stay safe
(Telegraph 30/01/2009)
Dr Richard Dawood offers his medical advice on the best way to protect yourself while on holiday.
Wildlife centre rabies warning
(The Scotsman 15/01/2009)
A RABIES warning has been issued to anyone in the Lothians who worked at a South African wildlife centre. Health experts are concerned that many people from across the UK may have passed through the Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation and Environmental Education Centre in Limpopo. A woman from Northern Ireland has died from rabies having worked at the centre in 2006.
Rabies victim dies of infection
(BBC 06/01/2009)
A Northern Ireland woman who contracted the rabies virus while she was abroad dies, her family says.
Patient to get 'rabies' results
(BBC 15/12/2008)
The results of tests on a woman suspected of having contracted rabies will be known later. Initial tests were positive. The patient had been abroad but began to feel unwell after they had been home for several months. The disease is extremely rare. The last case in Northern Ireland was in 1938.
Teenager 'only the third person' to survive rabies
(The Scotsman 15/11/2008)
A boy of 15 in Brazil who was bitten by a blood-sucking bat in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, was found to be clear of the virus after more than a month of hospital treatment using a combination of drugs. It is one of only three known cases, and the only one in Brazil, in which someone has survived a confirmed rabies infection, the country's health ministry said.
Vampire bats blamed for Venezuela rabies outbreak
(The Independent 10/08/2008)
At least 38 Venezuelans have died as a result of a suspected outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats. Laboratory tests have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms point to rabies, say researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and other medical experts.
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