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CHINGFORD: Workers bitten by rabid puppy given all-clear
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| Kim Cooling with some rescued dogs from Sri Lanka |
KENNEL workers who were bitten by a rabid puppy have been given a clean bill of health.
The Government also announced last night that the disease was contained and Britain remains rabies free.
Kim Cooling, who runs the Animal SOS Sri Lanka charity spent Friday night in hospital after the outbreak at Chingford Boarding and Quarantine Kennels, Chingford Mount Road, on Wednesday.
She is still being monitored by the Health Protection Agency but has said she feels tired but fine.
Ms Cooling, a support worker from Woodford, brought the puppy, named Millie, over from Sri Lanka along with four others.
Although they were vaccinted before leaving Asia, Ms Cooling said Millie's character suddenly changed last week.
She said: "She just snapped at me and she was snapping at the other pups.
"She was not her usual sweet self. She bit me in three places, on my wrist, hand and chin."
Another woman and a man who work at the kennels were also attacked by the puppy.
All four dogs have since been put down.
Ms Cooling started the charity 10 years ago with £4,500 of her own money after seeing the plight of Sri Lankan strays.
She has brought over dozens of dogs without problems.
At least two dogs have left the kennels, which on average houses 30 dogs at a time, in the past two weeks, although the kennel owners insist that the infected puppy was kept isolated.
Rabies causes between 40,000 and 70,000 deaths in people each year globally but the last British death was in 1902.
However a bat handler in Scotland died from a rabies-like infection in 2002.
8:35am Monday 28th April 2008
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