RABIES DEATH in Scotland
A bat conservationist who died on Sunday was Britain’s first rabies case since 1902. David McRae was diagnosed with European bat lyssavirus 2 – a virus closely related to rabies. He probably caught it after a bite from a Daubenton’s bat. Over the past 15 years, Britain’s Veterinary Laboratories Agency has analysed 3000 bats. Only twowere found with EBL2. This suggests that “EBL2 is endemic at low levels in the UK”, says Bill Reilly at the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health in Glasgow.
FOOD AID REQUEST
A top US official has asked the European Union…
