Rabid cats go on rampage
20/08/2008 15:08  - (SA)  

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Belgrade - A rabies alert was declared in a Serbian town after several infected cats bit and scratched seven people, including two pre-school children, the national television RTS said on Wednesday.

All of the victims were treated with a vaccine against the deadly disease and released from hospital, the report said, without specifying when the incident occurred.

Authorities in Raca Kragujevacka, in central Serbia some 110km south of Belgrade, raised the alert after the rabies virus was isolated and confirmed in one of the cats.

Carried by saliva of infected mammals and invariably lethal if not urgently treated, rabies kill 50 000 people around the world. The rural central parts of Serbia remain plagued by the disease, though no human fatalities were recently reported. - Sapa-dpa

- SAPA

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