PHE issues national warning to GPs after rabid bat found in UK GPs have been instructed to consider a rabies injection for any UK patient exposed to bats, after the find of dead rabid bat in England.
The note from Public Health England said the European Bat Lyssavirus 1 was detected in a dead serotine bat found in Dorset, and that it was the first time this particular virus has ever been confirmed in the UK.
According to the notice, the bat rabies virus is 'related to the classical rabies virus and can lead to clinical rabies in humans'. Pulse
The note from Public Health England said the European Bat Lyssavirus 1 was detected in a dead serotine bat found in Dorset, and that it was the first time this particular virus has ever been confirmed in the UK.
According to the notice, the bat rabies virus is 'related to the classical rabies virus and can lead to clinical rabies in humans'. Pulse
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