INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KARACHI: A 10-year-old Mir Hassan, who was bitten by a stray dog, died of rabies in Larkana on Tuesday.Rabies encephalitis, a lethal viral
but vaccine-preventable disease, claimed another life in Larkana district of Sindh when a boy died after falling prey to dog biting as he
was not treated due to unavailability of anti-rabies vaccine at government hospitals.According to the parents, their son was first taken to
a hospital in Shikarpur where the minor was not given the treatment because there was no vaccine available at the hospital
Later, they rushed him to Larkana's Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Hospital but he could not receive care there either, as this government health
center had also run out of the vaccine
Resultantly, the patient succumbed to the disease.A Rabies Encephalitis is a dog-borne viral illness caused mostly by the biting of stray
dogs, and if ARV is not administered to the affected person along with immunoglobulin, the patient suffers a miserable death due to
hydrophobia and other complications of the disease.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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