Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa

  • Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Dec;12(12):1965-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1212.060764.
Janusz T Paweska  1 ,  Lucille H Blumberg ,  Charl Liebenberg ,  Richard H Hewlett ,  Antoinette A Grobbelaar ,  Patricia A Leman ,  Janice E Croft ,  Louis H Nel ,  Louise Nutt ,  Robert Swanepoel
Affiliations
  • 1. National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa.
PMID: 17326954 DOI: 10.3201/eid1212.060764
Abstract

Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabies-like disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred approximately 80 km from the site where the only other known human Infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.