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October 07, 2007 Sunday Ramazan 24, 1428





KARACHI: Rabid dog bites 10 people in Korangi



By Our Staff Reporter


KARACHI, Oct 6: As many as 10 persons bitten by the same rabid dog in Korangi were brought to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for anti-rabies treatment on Saturday.

Dr Seemin Jamali, In-charge of the JPMC’s emergency section and anti-rabies cell, said that victims, aged from four to 40 years, kept reporting to the hospital till the afternoon. The majority of the patients were children.

She said that the patients were given vaccines and immune globulin free of cost and discharged later on, with the instruction that they should complete the treatment comprising anti-rabies vaccines in the next 90 days at the hospital.

She mentioned that the JPMC received dog-bite cases from time to time and warned parents to pay special attention to their children, as they constituted a large number of dog-bite victims.

“About six weeks back, we received 11 people, including children, who were bitten by a dog in Landhi,” she recalled.






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