Two cases of rabies in Vietnam after butchering and eating a dog or a cat

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

Eating dog meat, and to a lesser extent cat meat, is common in Asia. In a case-based education article published by PLoS Medicine, Heiman Wertheim (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit - Hanoi, Vietnam) and colleagues describe two patients in Hanoi who died from laboratory-confirmed rabies...

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