Woman who contracted human rabies after being bitten by a marmoset dies in Recife

The patient had numbness, as well as pain and muscle weakness. On January 2, she developed a serious neurological condition with respiratory failure.

Brazil recorded 48 cases of human rabies between 2010 and 2024. Nine were caused by dog ​​bites, 24 by bats, six by non-human primates, two by foxes, four by felines and one by cattle, reported the Ministry of Health. In two other cases, it was not possible to identify the animal that caused the bite. the aggression.

Only two patients have survived human rabies in Brazil. In 2008, Marciano Menezes da Silva was bitten by a bat, but did not receive the anti-rabies vaccine because he “did not show symptoms of the disease”. A month later, he began to feel numbness in his arms and a high fever and started treatment at Huoc. He became the fourth person in the world to survive rabies, but with consequences. In 2017, a teenager was diagnosed and managed to be treated in time in Manaus.

Hospital mourned the death. “We express our most sincere condolences and wish comfort, peace, and much strength to the family.”