Travel Insurance Claims - True Stories

Just some of the weird and wonderful things that happen to World Nomads travellers while on the road

Rabies scare

INDIA | Wednesday, 6 April 2005 | Views [1501] | Comments [3]

While I was in Sarnath, India I was bitten by a puppy that later bit 13 other people and died four days later of rabies. I was bitten on my index finger and wrist. Unfortunately, I didn't find out that the puppy had rabies until I reached Kathmandu the night of March 11.

I immediately went for rabies treatment at the CIWEC clinic in Kathmandu which treats western travelers. Because it had been 9 days since I was bitten I had to receive the human gobulin shot first and then the series of 5 shots. I got the first three shots in Kathmandu at this clinic.

I already had my plane ticket to fly to Guatemala where I went to the emergency room of the Herrera Llerandi Hospital in Guatemala City to get the 4th shot, due on March 25th, and to buy the 5th shot from them to take to the village of Panajachel where I will be staying so I can get that last shot without having to go back to Guatemala City.

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Comments

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Rabies is a disease caused by a virus found in the saliva of infected animals and is transmitted to pets and humans by bites, or possibly by contamination of an open cut. Treatment of an infected person as critical. Untreated, rabies causes a painful death.

J Sep 5, 2006 7:29 PM

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OMGGG

Anna Jan 11, 2007 3:25 AM

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what happened after that?
did you survive? ...did you have after effects from the treatment. I just underwent the same treatment for rabies because I was bitten by a bat. But now, a few weeks after the last treatment... I have a headache, soreness behind my eyes and I feel am very very tired as though my body is trying to fight off some illness.
Did you experience this?
Just wondering... hope all went well with you.
jane

jane Jun 9, 2008 5:28 AM