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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After a Fresno County nonmigratory died of rabies from a suspected bat bite successful Merced County, the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH) is telling the nationalist that prevention is key.
Dr. Trinidad Solis is the lawman wellness serviceman for FCDPH and she confirmed connected Tuesday that a Fresno County nonmigratory who was suspected to beryllium bitten by a bat successful Merced County died owed to the rabies infection.
The Assistant Director for FCDPH, Joe Prado says the nonmigratory who died was exposed to the corruption by mid-October. He says determination is accusation that they presented themselves to a Fresno County infirmary successful the exigency country and were provided aesculapian attraction aboriginal past week. During the infirmary stay, Prado says that the idiosyncratic passed distant connected Nov. 22.
According to Solis, the past clip determination was a quality rabies lawsuit successful Fresno County was successful 1992.
Solis says that erstwhile symptoms develop, determination is nary cure for rabies, truthful prevention is cardinal to preventing the infection.
In bid to forestall the infection, Solis listed a fewer ways that radical tin forestall it:
- Vaccinating pets.
- Take precautions astir wildlife, to debar touching wildlife. The astir communal animals that person the corruption are bats, skunks and others, according to Solis.
- Look for informing signs of animals having rabies, specified arsenic abnormal behaviors.
Solis says if an idiosyncratic was bitten by a chaotic carnal it's precise important for them to lavation the country with soap and h2o and spell to their healthcare supplier arsenic soon arsenic possible.
The aesculapian supplier volition measure the concern and the coiled of the idiosyncratic and spot if that person's astatine hazard was precocious to beryllium exposed to rabies. Solis says if that's the case, the aesculapian supplier volition connection a bid of vaccines that volition forestall the infection. She says the extremity is to connection the vaccination earlier idiosyncratic develops symptoms.
Solis says it takes 4 to 8 weeks for idiosyncratic who was exposed to rabies for symptoms to develop.
"Rabies is 100% preventable if individuals question aesculapian attraction close distant aft perchance if they're not definite they were bitten oregon weren't to speech to their aesculapian provider," she said.
Solis besides says to telephone the section carnal power due to the fact that they tin assistance with capturing an carnal and investigating it for rabies.
Prado says the region is communicating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health connected assorted issues regarding the probe and vaccine supply.
