13 January 2008
LEGAZPI CITY—Some 30 people from several villages in Malinao, Albay are feared to have been infected by rabies after eating the meat of a rabid dog.
Malinao Mayor Billy Ciriola said that as of Saturday morning, municipal health officials have been busy searching for at least 25 residents of Barangay Estancia and five residents from neighboring villages who reportedly ate the dog meat that proved to be rabies infested.
Ciriola said in a mobile phone interview that the dog has bitten three persons already and municipal health officers “suggested that the dog be slaughtered and brought to the health office for examination.”
However, he said, the health officers did not know that after the head of the dog was brought to them, the villagers butchered the dog’s body and ate its meat.
Ciriola said some of the victims were already brought to different hospitals for observation and antirabies vaccination although there were yet no reports on their latest condition. Ephraim Aguilar, Inquirer Southern Luzon
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