Suspected Rabies Patient Dies in Bali

ANCHOR:
Over in Indonesia a suspected rabies patient died on Wednesday in Bali. This brings the total number of rabies deaths to five in recent months. Heres the full report.

STORY:
The patient that died from rabies was Ni Ruken, a 45-year-old from southern Kuta. According to her nephew, Ruken was bitten by a stray dog around three months ago.

[I Made Puja, Ni Rukens Nephew]:
After three months, the bite had already healed, but suddenly the disease relapsed, and she got an arm cramp, pain in the chest and a temperature.

She was sent to hospital and died 24 hours later.

Rabies cases have been increasing in southern Kuta. Even though the Bali government has tried to control the disease by giving vaccines and euthanizing stray dogs, it is still not enough to control the rabies virus in this area.

NTD, Bali, Indonesia.

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• rabies virus

[garyturner96]

Because like Hinduism in India, stray dogs are allowed to wander around and are not destroyed. The control of strays is fundamental in rabies control and eradication programmes.

[rabiesaware]

Good report.

In the U.S., canine rabies has been eradicated, but rabies in wildlife is on the rise - in raccoons, skunks, foxes, coyotes and bats. We are trying to get the word out in the U.S. that rabies is here and can be found in every state. Rabies is deadly.

[PatrickVedlog]

I Made Puja!

[Skoda130]

The symptoms sound nothing like Rabiës. Come on.. Dead within 24 hours after the symptoms first showed?

[Chardong]

dog got owned

[808Hea]

@PivotProductions23 Sir did you mean to say Hawaii?

[mbuller11]

what does that have to do with putting your dog on a leash

[garyturner96]

Its called Buddhism I think. If medical science was left to its job rabies would be controlled or even eventually eliminated entirely from Bali, and that's truth.

[aidanne07]

I'm so glad i don't live there?

[PivotProductions23]

Except Hawiwii  pritty sure thats a state tell me if im wrong lol im not american

[doublehalf]

I Made Puja?

Man, that name does not transliterate well into English.