On November 27, Ba Ria City Medical Center (Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province) said that there was a case of death from rabies, suspected of being scratched by cats.The victim is V.T.T.D (SN 1971, living in Long Tam ward).
The patient's family members declared, on 25-5-2024, Ms. D. was scratched by cats, scratched skin, slightly bleeding.From the time when the cat was scratched until Ms. D. was ill, he was not bitten by animals, scratched again.
Because of thinking that domestic cats were no problem, Ms. D. did not go to preventive treatment after exposure, and she had not vaccinated before exposure.
Functional forces organize vaccination for dogs and cats
On November 20, Ms. D. showed signs of fever, sore throat, fatigue but still went to work normally.On November 23, tired, shortness of breath, family members took Ms. D. to emergency at Ba Ria Hospital, not yet found the cause of the disease.
On the morning of November 24, patients had difficulty breathing, irritability, coughing a lot, worried people, family members asked to refer to themselves and were hospitalized at Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital.In the evening of the same day, the patient continued to transfer to the Tropical Diseases Hospital and was diagnosed with nonsense rabies.
On November 25, the patient was asked by his family members to go to Ba Ria Hospital to continue treatment, with diagnosis of rabies - acute myocarditis.After that, the family asked for discharge from the hospital, the patient died the same day.
Also according to the patient's family members, the raising cat has scratched the patient's lower legs as a cat, not vaccinated.Also on May 25, before scratching Ms. D.'s legs, this cat bit deep, causing bleeding in Ms. L.'s legs (sister D.'s sister).Seeing that, the family members beat them to death and then destroyed the cat.Currently, Ms. L.'s health is normal and has been vaccinated against nose 1 on November 25.
Facing the above situation, Ba Ria City Medical Center cooperates with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) of the province, Long Tam ward guides cases of exposure to health monitoring, compliance with vaccination schedule-ask for the right date;Guide households to lock all the current dogs and cats in the barn to monitor their progress.
Along with that, the disinfectant of the disease house area;Guide to mobilizing patients' families to implement hygiene regulations in burial and burial.