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Human Rabies - Puerto Rico, 2015. 2017
Ashley Styczynski, and
Cuc Tran, and
Emilio Dirlikov, and
María Ramos Zapata, and
Kyle Ryff, and
Brett Petersen, and
Anibal Cruz Sanchez, and
Marrielle Mayshack, and
Laura Castro Martinez, and
Rene Condori, and
James Ellison, and
Lillian Orciari, and
Pamela Yager, and
Rafael González Peña, and
Dario Sanabria, and
Julio Cádiz Velázquez, and
Dana Thomas, and
Brenda Rivera García
On December 1, 2015, the Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDH) was notified by a local hospital of a suspected human rabies case. The previous evening, a Puerto Rican man aged 54 years arrived at the emergency department with fever, difficulty swallowing, hand paresthesia, cough, and chest tightness. The next morning the patient left against medical advice but returned to the emergency department in the afternoon with worsening symptoms. The patient's wife reported that he had been bitten by a mongoose during the first week of October, but had not sought care for the bite. While being transferred to the intensive care unit, the patient went into cardiac arrest and died. On December 3, rabies was confirmed from specimens collected during autopsy. PRDH conducted an initial rapid risk assessment, and five family members were started on rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP).
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