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A total of 350 animals thought to have rabies have been destroyed in KwaZulu-Natal this year, but only 107 of them tested positive for the disease, an official said on Wednesday.
23 May 2012 | Sapa
DURBAN - "The numbers of animal cases are higher this year due to the large outbreak in the Bergville and Loskop area, otherwise the cases are declining in the rest of the province," said agriculture spokesman Jeffrey Zikhali...
Rabies claim third victim in KZN
Friday 8 June 2012 19:24
A third person has died of rabies in KwaZulu-Natal. Life-supporting machines keeping 29-year old canoeist and farmer, Graeme Anderson alive have been switched off in the Pietermaritzburg hospital. Anderson contracted rabies from a stray dog he had found a few weeks ago...
Rabies grips KZN Midlands, fears grow
June 10 2012 at 02:58pm
By VIVIAN ATTWOOD
KwaZulu-Natal is in the grip of the most serious outbreak of the dread disease rabies in years, according to the farming community of Bergville/Winterton in the KZN Midlands.
Vets in the area have euthanased at least 50 rabid dogs in the past few weeks, and each dog might have been in contact with an unknown number of people who could now be facing a certain death sentence. If treatment is not initiated soon after exposure, the rabies virus enters the nervous system and kills its host...
KwaZulu-Natal
Jun 11 2012 7:28AM
Province on rabies alert
Dudu Dube
A three-year-old boy from Umlazi was close to becoming the fourth victim of rabies in the province following an outbreak of the disease that has killed three people in the past month.
The toddler has been at the Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital for the past two weeks and, according to the department of environmental affairs, is showing signs of recovery.
?We have been in contact with his mother since he was admitted to hospital and she says there are improvements. He can now sit and has started swallowing liquids. He also responds when she calls his name but he still cannot speak properly,? said department spokesperson Jeffrey Zikhali.
On Friday, the first reported victim of rabies in the province, Graeme Anderson, died after five weeks in a critical condition...
An Underberg farmer who died after contracting rabies was licked -- not bitten -- by a rabid dog, a Gauteng agriculture official said on Wednesday.
Chief director of veterinary services Dr Malcolm de Bude said it was not commonly known that the rabies virus could be transmitted through abrasions in the skin.
When the rabid dog licked damaged skin on Graeme Anderson's hand, the virus passed into his blood stream.
Anderson, 29, who was also a top canoeist, died last week after machines keeping him alive were switched off.
He spent five weeks in the ICU at a Pietermaritzburg hospital before his death.
De Bude said the rabies situation was "under control" in Gauteng.
Rabies outbreak under control in Gauteng
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The outbreak of rabies in Gauteng is fully under control despite an incident where three people were bitten by a puppy with suspicious behavioural symptoms of the disease.
Agriculture, Rural and Social Development, chief director veterinary services, Dr Malcom de Bude said they had experienced an imported case of rabies into Gauteng from other provinces.
"We can confirm that the outbreak of rabies in this province is fully under control. Since the 11 cases were confirmed last September, we've successfully brought it under control because no case has been reported except the imported ones," he said...
