摘要：This is a report of the first known human case of illnessapparently due to the newly identified lyssavirus. Thelyssavirus had previously only been identified in fruit bats(flying foxes).A 39 year old female living in Rockhampton became un-well in late October 1996 with pain and numbness in herleft arm. She had been caring for a number of fruit bats forthe preceding two to four weeks and had sustained numer-ous scratches to her left arm. There was no history of a bitefrom the fruit bats. She had previously cared for a numberof other animals including cockatoos, dogs, cats, an insec-tivorous bat and marsupials, but had been caring for fruitbats in the recent period only
