Dr. Rahul Gupta, health officer for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, said Thursday the woman was bitten on the arm at her home Sunday near Campbell’s Creek. Tests performed at the West Virginia Office of Laboratory Services confirmed the positive case and the woman is undergoing treatment.
Gupta says this marks the first confirmed case of animal rabies in the county since 2004.
Rabies is an infectious virus that attacks the nervous system and is usually fatal unless treated.
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