Wednesday, July 23, 2025
A 44-year-old man from Voinești, Iași County, Romania, died of rabies in mid-July 2025 after being bitten by a stray dog in February. He was treated with antibiotics but did not receive post-exposure prophylaxis. Symptoms appeared in June, and rabies was only suspected after his family reported the bite. He died after more than three weeks in an infectious disease clinic. This is the first confirmed autochthonous human case of terrestrial rabies in Romania and the EU/EEA since 2012.