Abstract
IN the Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Industry for October 1934 (3, No. 2, p. 335), attention is directed to the increase in South Africa in the incidence of rabies in 1933 over 1932. The disease occurs, and appears to be spreading, among the small wild carnivora (Viverridœ). The disease was definitely proved in twenty animals, and in addition nine calves and three cows almost certainly died from it. There were six cases in man, transmitted once by a dog, twice by the domestic cat, once by a wild cat, and twice by the yellow mungoose (Cynictis).
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Rabies in South Africa. Nature 136, 63 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136063c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136063c0