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A media report (in Spanish) of 3 February 2017 advised of a fatal case of human rabies in Colombia. The case was a 25-year-old woman that died in the San Ignacio de Bogota Hospital. The woman contracted rabies through cat bite for which she had not received any post exposure treatment.
This is the 2nd case of human rabies in reported in Colombia in the last 15 months and has caused alarm because health authorities considered the disease controlled (in humans) through the vaccination of animals. Rabies vaccine is free for animals in Colombia.
A total of 34 people have died of rabies in Colombia in the last 12 years.
Colombia is considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be a high risk destination for rabies.