Rabies from Cat Bite in Morocco Kills UK Resident Months Later

Coming to recharge his origins, the Moroccan-British was far from imagining that he would contract a deadly disease. The facts date back to 2018 when Omar Zouhri, aged 58, was bitten by a cat with rabies.

But, once at the hospital, the doctors prescribed him anti-itch cream as treatment. According to Hespress, it was only two months later that he began to show symptoms of "furious rabies". According to the British investigators, the virus had entered his central nervous system, sealing his fate.

But how did the doctors miss such a diagnosis, when we know that cases of cat bites in the streets of the Kingdom are frequent? In addition, the same cat, according to information received from consistent sources, had also bitten six other people less than half an hour after biting Zouhri, including a young boy who later died.

The man had been examined by another doctor at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Dissatisfied, he then went to the local police station to complain about the ineffectiveness of the doctors. Indeed, the appropriate treatment against rabies is effective when administered within 24 hours of the bite.

A few weeks after this unsuccessful attempt, Omar Zouhri was rushed by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford in critical condition. He died, according to Hespress, which draws its information from the British press, in the same hospital where he had lost his eldest son suffering from leukemia, several years earlier.