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Six-year-old schoolgirl Carlie second to die after Gauteng rabies outbreak
By YOU on July 22, 2016
With her red hair and beautiful smile she was grandma?s little spinning top.
Little Carlie du Plessis (6) had already learnt to drive on her father?s farm outside of Clocolan. She was fluent in Sotho and loved animals and being in nature.
But last Wednesday the Grade 0 learner became complained of feeling nauseous and cold. By Sunday she wasn?t any better and her father Johann rushed her to hospital in Bloemfontein. But by the time they arrived, she was paralysed. By nightfall, she was dead.
Yesterday the shocking news arrived: Carlie had died of rabies.
Professor Lucille Blumberg, deputy director for the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says Carlie is the second person this year to have died of the disease.
The other case was 16-year-old school boy from the Zululand district who passed away in January this year.
There was an outbreak of the terrible sickness in Gauteng after ten animals were diagnosed with it ? six jackals, three cattle and a Great Dane dog that hadn?t been vaccinated...
Six-year-old schoolgirl Carlie second to die after Gauteng rabies outbreak
By YOU on July 22, 2016
With her red hair and beautiful smile she was grandma?s little spinning top.
Little Carlie du Plessis (6) had already learnt to drive on her father?s farm outside of Clocolan. She was fluent in Sotho and loved animals and being in nature.
But last Wednesday the Grade 0 learner became complained of feeling nauseous and cold. By Sunday she wasn?t any better and her father Johann rushed her to hospital in Bloemfontein. But by the time they arrived, she was paralysed. By nightfall, she was dead.
Yesterday the shocking news arrived: Carlie had died of rabies.
Professor Lucille Blumberg, deputy director for the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says Carlie is the second person this year to have died of the disease.
The other case was 16-year-old school boy from the Zululand district who passed away in January this year.
There was an outbreak of the terrible sickness in Gauteng after ten animals were diagnosed with it ? six jackals, three cattle and a Great Dane dog that hadn?t been vaccinated...