July 2005 in Britain and Ireland - 22 July 2005 (Friday)

22 July 2005 (Friday)

  • It is announced that a British woman in her 30s from Bury, Greater Manchester, died in hospital in Liverpool last Saturday from rabies. It is believed that she had been bitten by a dog while on holiday in Goa, India. The last case of fatal rabies acquired in the UK was in 2002, when a Scottish bat enthusiast died, the first such fatality since 1902. (BBC)

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