Birgitte Kallestad Died After Contracting Rabies From a Puppy She Rescued While on Holiday

Birgitte Kallestad, a traveller from Norway, died on May 6, 2019, after she was bit by a wandering dog from a streets of a Philippines that she rescued. She was 24 years old.

Kallestad was from Hordaland, dual months after a dog bit her.

According to a matter from Kallestad’s family, their daughter was with a organisation of friends on holiday. They were on mopeds when they saw a puppy that was a stray. Kallestad put a dog in a basket and took a animal to her resort.

Like any pet owner, Kallestad and her friends performed teenager scratches and bites from a play time with a puppy.

Kallestad worked during Forde Central Hospital as a health caring worker, spotless her wounds herself. The family pronounced a cuts were small, and zero major. Further medical diagnosis was not suspicion to have been necessary.

Kallestad went on with her holiday feeling fine. When she returned home, she started to feel sick. She grown a headache and fever, that are rabies symptoms.

Doctors had problem diagnosing a illness and did not bond it to a puppy bite. Kallestad did not consider that was an choice either. There have been no cases of rabies in Norway for over 200 years.

Kallestad was hospitalized mixed times, and her condition declined, and she was re-hospitalized. A alloy finally suspicion a symptoms were caused by rabies.

Blood samples were sent to Sweden’s Public Health Authority and confirmed.

Kallestad and her friends did not accept a rabies shot before their holiday since it was not compulsory in a Philippines.

Kallestad’s family have started a debate to get rabies shots onto a list of imperative vaccinations. They pronounced if they can do this, her genocide will have meaning.

Written by Barbara Sobel

Sources:

Daily Mail: Norwegian tourist, 24, dies of rabies after she’s bitten by a puppy she discovered while on holiday in a Philippines

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