Woman Dies Of Rabies After Cat Bite

A holidaymaker who was on vacation in Morocco has died of rabies, following an encounter with a rabid cat.

The victim, a Briton, died after contracting rabies while in Morocco, The Telegraph quoted health officials as saying.

The online medium reported that Public Health England issued a warning to travellers after the UK resident contracted the disease after being bitten by a rabid cat.

No more details have been released about the case.Rabies does not circulate in either wild or domestic animals in the UK, but between 2000 and 2017 five UK residents became infected with rabies after “animal exposures abroad”, PHE added.

No human cases of rabies acquired in the UK from animals other than bats have been reported since 1902.The last recorded rabies case in Britain was in 2012, when a British grandmother was bitten by her son’s pet dog in India. Sharanjit Ubhi, 58, developed symptoms three months after her trip having returned home to Dartford in Kent.Her family told the coroner the bite was so small the grandmother did not even think to get herself checked by a doctor at the time.

Yet despite her complaining of a pain in her right arm for three days she was turned away from one hospital twice and classed as a “minor case”.It was only when she went back to her GP, who had seen a case of rabies before, that he suspected she might have contracted the rare illness.