Health Alerts

A man from El Salto, a municipality SE of Guadalajara, has become Jalisco’s first rabies death in 13 years. According to news reports, he was bitten on the arm by a bat in January while in the nearby town of Chapala, but did not seek treatment until early April when he was symptomatic. In other rabies news, recent reports from the USA on animal (fox, dog, bats and skunk) and human exposure to the rabies virus in the states of South Carolina, Virginia, Missouri and Alabama. Read more