Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa

Abstract

Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred ≈80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.

Keywords

• Duvenhage virus
• rabies-related lyssavirus
• fatal human infection
• South Africa
• dispatch