Nowadays, health leaders sounded the alarm after a British woman died of rabies, in which the deadly disease was sustained in Morocco by a lost puppy.
Grandmother Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, fell ill two weeks ago and steadily deteriorated until her death this week.
Her daughter, Robyn Thomson, 32, a neo-natal nurse, tributed to her mother-known as a ‘bon’ in a moving post and encouraged others to treat even the smallest scratch with caution.
Rabies, which is passed through injuries such as snacks and scratches of an infected animal, are almost always fatal.
After an infection, the symptoms can take up to a year to appear.
But when they appear, the disease is a fast and brutal murderer. Most patients will die in a few days.
Research has even suggested that people can lose ‘physical control and rationality’, with historical records that show that some people have sustained rabies of dog bites ‘growls like dogs’ and ‘barks’.
Here MailOnline reveals exactly how the dangerous disease is holding.
Grandmother Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, got sick two weeks ago and deteriorated steadily until her death this week
Her daughter, Robyn Thomson, 32, a neo-natal nurse, tributed to her mother-known as a ‘bon’ in a moving post and encouraged others to treat even the smallest scratch with caution
The first symptoms can look like the flu, with later signs, including fever, headache, nausea, agitation, swallowing problems and excessive saliva.
But while it is traveling to the brain through the nerves and spinal cord – through the central nervous system – Inflammation of the brain or swelling of the brain develops.
Jeanna Giese, now 35, is the first person who is known to survive rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine – a performance that was considered impossible in 2004.
She was bitten by a bat at the age of 15, before she suddenly developed symptoms three weeks later.
Spend against the guardian In 2023 she said: ‘I started to feel incredibly tired.
‘A few days later I could not get out of bed, I had double view and vomited uncontrollable. Soon I didn’t respond. ‘
It was only by receiving a new treatment called the Milwaukee Protocol, which she survived.
This concerned doctors who put her into an induced coma to suppress brain function and prevent the fatal structure of inflammation by giving her antiviral medicines.
An investigation into her death was open this morning at 9 am at the Heffield Coroners’ Court and has been postponed since then
After two weeks she was taken out of the coma and spent the next two years in recovery, where she learned to walk and talk again.
However, others have not been lucky and had hallucinations or even paralysis as soon as the virus gets stuck.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), paralytic rabies are good for about one fifth of all human cases.
Muscles are gradually paralyzed, starting at the site of the bite or scratch. A coma develops slowly and in the end death takes place.
Last year the Brazilian health officers also reported that a man had died of rabies after the disease had left him with fatal brain inflammation.
The 56-year-old was bitten by a monkey and three weeks later broke, drool and fainting.
Within a week he was diagnosed with encephalitis – it means that his brains were swollen and despite the treatment died fourteen days later.
Writing The conversationA Canadian historian also told how patients with rabies also historically lost ‘physical control and rationality’.
In a separate Facebook message, Mrs. Ford’s daughter Robyn Thomson said: ‘We never thought that something like that could happen to someone we love. Take animal bites seriously, vaccinate your pets and learn the people around you. ‘
Professor Jessica Wang, an expert in the history of the US at the University of British Columbia, said that the 19th-century newspapers’ often described those who have contracted dog bites as barking and growling as dogs, while cat-beeted victims scratched and splash.
Hallucinations, ‘breathing spasms and out-of-control convulsions’ were also common symptoms registered, she added.
It comes when British health officials today revealed that a British woman died of rabies after entering into the deadly disease in a scratch of a stray puppy in Morocco.
In a separate Facebook message, her daughter Robyn Thomson said: ‘Our family still processes this unimaginable loss, but we choose to speak in the hope of preventing this from happening to others.
‘Yvonne Ford, the wife of Ron Ford and our mother, died of rabies. In February she was very slightly scratched by a puppy in Morocco.
“At the time, she didn’t think there would be any damage to it and didn’t think much about it.
‘Two weeks ago she got sick, starting with a headache and resulted in losing her ability to walk, talk, sleep, swallow. Resulting in her death. ‘
She added: ‘We never thought something like that could happen to someone we love. Take animal bites seriously, vaccinate your pets and learn the people around you.
In people who are infected, symptoms of rabies seem to be one to three months after exposure and quickly develop into hallucinations, delirium and hydrophobia, or fear of water, closely followed by death
It is understood that Mrs. Ford was diagnosed with the disease in the Barnsley Hospital
“She was the heart of our family – Strong, loving and endlessly supportive. No words can fully capture the depth of our loss or the impact she had on all of us.
‘We are deeply sad, but also grateful for every moment we had with her. Rest peaceful, bon. You will always be with us. ‘
It is understood that Mrs. Ford was diagnosed with the disease in the Barnsley Hospital.
An investigation into her death was open this morning at 9 am at the Heffield Coroners’ Court, where her daughter was. It has been postponed since then.
There are fewer than 10 cases of human rabies associated with expansions to animals abroad, reported in the UK since 2000.
However, the UKHSA emphasized that there was “no risk for the wider public,” since there is “no documented evidence of rabies that passes between people.”
The last death caused by rabies in a British animal – unlike bats – was in 1902.
Dog licenses, euthanasia of stray dogs and quarantine were credited for killing the virus.
Omar Zouhri, 58, from Aylesbury, was bitten by the rabid animal while he was on holiday with his family on 31 August last year. This is the last photo of him in the hospital shortly before he died
West -Europe is now considered a low risk to the WHO disease, while countries in Eastern Europe are mentioned as ‘moderate risk’ and African and Central Eastern countries are ‘high risk’.
Popular tourist destinations such as Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey all wear a high risk of dogs that transmit rabies to people.
Dr. Katherine Russell, head of emerging infections and zooses, said in the UKHSA: ‘I would like to extend my participation to the family of this person at the moment.
‘If you are bitten, scratched or licked by an animal in a country where rabies are found, you must wash the wound or exposure place with a lot of soap and water and without delay medical advice to get treatment after exposure to prevent rabies.
‘There is no risk for the wider public in connection with this case.
“Human cases of rabies are extremely rare in the UK, and there are no documented cases of direct man to human transfer worldwide.”
Nowadays it is possible to save a patient who has sustained rabies if they can start treatment before the virus enters their immune system.
The course of treatment for rabies is four doses of vaccination for rabies and human rabies of immunoglobulin (antibodies) that are applied for a period of 21 days.
The last recorded rabies in the UK was in 2018, when Omar Zouhri, a 58-year-old Kebab shop employee, was bitten by a cat while visiting family in Mehdya, Morocco.
An investigation in Oxford heard that Mr. Zouhri had contracted rabies on 31 August 2018, but It was only in October 28 that “the dice was cast” when he started reporting the symptoms of ‘furious rabies’.
This included itching, pain and muscle twitching – which showed that the virus had arrived all its central nervous system, so that the treatment was not effective.
The Heer Zouhri, from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, died in the hospital in Oxford on November 4, 2018.
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