{"id":542334,"date":"2026-05-14T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542334"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:05:41","slug":"woman-in-mahiliou-region-contracts-rabies-from-stray-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/woman-in-mahiliou-region-contracts-rabies-from-stray-cat","title":{"rendered":"Woman In Mahiliou Region Contracts Rabies From Stray Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A human rabies infection case was recorded in Belarus in April this year.<\/p>\n<p>The disease was diagnosed in a resident of the Mahiliou region who had been scratched by a stray cat. The woman did not seek medical assistance and did not undergo a course of anti-rabies vaccinations, the Health Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/minzdrav.gov.by\/ru\/novoe-na-sayte\/o-profilaktike-beshenstva\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No information was provided about the woman\u2019s further condition.<\/p>\n<p>Rabies is a fatal disease. The appearance of clinical symptoms indicates that the disease has entered the acute phase and recovery is impossible: a person dies from paralysis of the respiratory system or cardiac arrest. The only effective means of preventing rabies is a course of anti-rabies vaccinations, which should be started as soon as possible after contact with an infected animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human rabies infection case was recorded in Belarus in April this year. The disease was diagnosed in a resident of the Mahiliou region who had been scratched by a stray cat. The woman did not seek medical assistance and did not undergo a course of anti-rabies vaccinations, the Health Ministry reports. No information was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a060efdd4fe9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Woman In Mahiliou Region Contracts Rabies From Stray Cat"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}