A 59-year-old grandmother, Yvonne Ford, died from rabies four months after being scratched by a stray dog while on holiday in Morocco. Despite initially cleaning the minor wound herself, she later developed severe symptoms, including hallucinations and disorientation, leading to her diagnosis at Barnsley Hospital. Rabies is highly fatal once symptoms appear, and the inquest revealed that the illness was challenging for medical staff to identify.
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