Rabies in the Mongoose
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on 1st August, 1932. Came for treatment on 3rd August, 1932. Finished treatment on 17th August, 1932. He stated:? ' I was sitting outside my house when a mongoose rushed at me and caught hold of my finger tip. A few boys of the village came running after it saying that it was mad and had bitten a dog and a grown-up calf in the village. The mongoose, however, escaped into an enclosure where farmers stack dry sticks and fuel of similar nature. In detaching the mongoose I had to roll it over and discovered that it was a male. It was seen again the
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دوره 67 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016