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    Bolivia reports 3rd human rabies death in 8-year-old girl
    Posted by Robert Herriman on June 24, 2015 // 1 Comment
    For the third time in 2015, Bolivian health officials are reporting a human rabies fatality, this time in a 8-year-old girl from the rural municipality of Portachuelo in the eastern Santa Cruz region.

    The child, according to health officials, was bitten by a puppy three months ago and the child?s mother did not report the bite until she was admitted with symptoms one week ago.
    Fox News Latino reports that this is the first case of death from rabies recorded in the eastern Santa Cruz region in two and a half years.
    Earlier this year, two other rabies deaths were reported in Bolivia?A 28-year-old woman in March and a 63-year-old man in May, both from Cochabamba.
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    For the third time in 2015, Bolivian health officials are reporting a human rabies fatality, this time in a 8-year-old girl from  the rural municipality of Portachuelo in the eastern Santa Cruz region. The child, according to health officials, was bitten by a puppy three months ago and the child’s mother did not report the bite until she was […]
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