Fatal case of human rabies (Duvenhage virus) from a bat in Kenya: the Netherlands, December 2007

P PAM van Thiel, J AR van den Hoek, Filip Eftimov, Robert Tepaske, H J Zaaijer, Lodewijk Spanjaard, H EL de Boer, Gerard JJ van Doornum, Martin Schutten, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus,

Eurosurveillance · 2008 · 72 citations · 0 references

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On 19 November 2007, a 34-year-old woman was admitted to the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands with dysarthria, hypesthesia of both cheeks and unsteady gait, all of which started the day before. She had also experienced dizziness, nausea and general malaise since 16 November.