Bhutan: 2012 Rabies cases

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Source: http://www.kuenselonline.com/2011/?p=26859

Rabies kills seven animals, infects 36 people in Deorili

In the last 10 days Lhamoizingkha basic health unit in Dagana gave 36 people post exposure treatment for rabies.

Of the total, 34 people are from Deorili gewog said health officials.

Deorili is one of the farthest gewogs in Dagana where the outbreak in livestock was first reported last week, according to the National Centre for Animal Health.

The disease has killed six cows out of the 10 animals in the three villages of Dorji Bhu, Balabas and Karmaling under Deorili. The remaining four cows were under observation at the time of report. Rabid dogs, according to the centre, bit all animals.

However, as of yesterday gewog officials said only two cows were under observation and that the total number of animals that have died is seven. It includes, four cows, two goats and a calf, both livestock and gewog officials said.

Livestock officials suspect stray dogs from across the border accompanying construction workers to have carried the disease into the village.

Karmaling village?s livestock inspector Til Bahadur Bhujel said the first two cases of cattle rabies was reported on January 10. One of the cows died while the other is still under treatment.

He said the rabid dogs had also bit a man in Balabas village and two men in Karmaling village, treatment for whom is still on...

 

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Re: Bhutan: 2012 Rabies cases

Source: http://www.kuenselonline.com/2011/?p=28754

More than 400 vaccinated
Mar 17, 2012

Rabies Outbreak: The Sarpang hospital, as of yesterday, gave anti-rabies vaccine (ARV) to 435 people, following the recent rabies outbreak in the southern district.

Initially, the hospital had given ARVs to only 15 people, as it had only that many vaccines in stock. ?On receiving additional stock from Thimphu and Gelephu, more than 400 people from across the district were given ARV,? Sarpang hospital doctor Kinley Penjor said. ?We?re still expecting few more people to visit the hospital, especially those living in far-flung places.?

The hospital has also informed people that they need not take the ARV, if they had consumed boiled milk.

Two animal doctors from Zhemgang and Gelephu are expected today to help study the cause of the current rabies outbreak, and look for control measures, the district livestock official at Sarpang, Ugyen Dorji, said.

Ugyen Dorji said that, as a preventive measure, the livestock office would give anti-rabies vaccine to local cows in Sarpang. ?The office has only 800 ARVs in stock and has requested for another 500 ARVs from Serbithang,? Ugyen Dorji said.

A member of the Lothen milk association in Sarpang, and the owner of the two rabid confirmed calves, who had two milking cows, was suspended from selling their milk. They had supplied milk until March 11...