Overview

• Zacatecas State Public Health Laboratory diagnosed rabies in a 17-year-old resident of Mezquital del Oro after a skunk bite.
• Health Secretary Uswaldo Pinedo Barrios confirmed it is the first human rabies case detected in the state since 1987.
• The patient was initially treated at Hospital Rural No. 82 in Vicente Guerrero, Durango, before being transferred in critical condition to IMSS Hospital No. 1 in Zacatecas.
• Federal agencies INDRE, the General Directorate of Epidemiology and CENAPRECE have convened technical meetings and are supporting hospital assessment.
• Authorities have activated contact tracing and vaccination campaigns and urged anyone bitten by wild animals to wash wounds and seek immediate care.