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| Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:13 | |||||
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{mosimage} February 16, 2009 INMT recommends vaccination for travelers The Institute for Tropical Medicine is to advise vaccination against rabies to the Portuguese which will travel to Angola, where the disease has killed at least 60 people, but the medicine is used in Portugal. According to medical Anabela Rodrigues, of the Institute of bacteriological Câmara Pestana, the only responsible for part of the human anti-rabies in Portugal, for many applications but there is no vaccine to provide.The doctor said that the Institute Câmara Pestana is waiting for vaccines, from Germany, "the whole time." The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (INMT) is to advise people wishing to travel to some areas of Angola to be vaccinated against rabies is an acute infectious disease of evolution that manifests between animals and can be transmitted to humans through bites. The Angolan capital is being affected by an outbreak of rabies that has caused at least 60 dead, mostly school children, and led the authorities to collect the streets more than 800 animals since the beginning of January. In some countries, like Portugal, human rabies is eradicated and rabies in domestic animals is controlled.
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