9 Hospitalized After Eating Rabid Dog
From Times Wire Reports
Nine people who ate a neighbor’s dog are being monitored in a hospital isolation ward in the southern Philippines after the canine’s owner died of rabies, a local official said.
Farmer Teresita Estanol, 48, died Friday, said Mayor Efren Pinol of the town of Magpet.
The dog bit Estanol in mid-August, and days later her angry neighbors, apparently unaware that it had rabies, killed the animal and ate it, the mayor said.
Dog meat is a delicacy in some parts of the Philippines.
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