Asunción, 10 mar (EFE).-the emergence this year of the first case of rabies in a bat that attacking a human shot the alarm in Paraguay, where this evil is eradicated since 2004, announced today the national Antirrábico Center.
“Following that we launched an alert to health that is suffering the care authorities and special attention to persons attack by animals and specifically by bats,” he told Efe the director of the Centre, Miguel Castagnino.
The doctor said the mammal was trapped by the family of an 86 year old woman that attacked their housing, Lambaré, on the outskirts of Asunción, gave positive for rabies and the victim “is lucid, controlled and receiving prophylaxis”.
Is the ninth such since the beginning of year in Paraguay, which last year recorded 28 attacks of bats, according to Castagnino, it attaches these events to a forced migration of their natural habitat due to deforestation.
“There were 800 pockets of forest fires across the country in 2011, we already warned of this to urbanize” Castagnino referred to remark that these mammals have the habit to follow watercourses and migrate 15 kilometres every night.
Added that rabies continues killing the year between 50,000 and 55,000 people in the world, the 95 and 96 by hundreds of them by attack dogs and the rest by wild animals, including bats. EFE
