Taiwan: Chiayi County woman bitten by rabid ferret-badger
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#S60Y)
For more than five decades, Taiwan was rabies-free-that was until 2013 when the lethal virus reappeared in a Formosan ferret-badger. Now the Taiwanese news source, Focus Taiwan reports a 79-year-old woman from Meishan Township in Chiayi County was bitten by a ferret-badger that was later found to be infected with rabies. This is the first rabies case ["]