Fox with rabies bites child in Sevastopol

Today, a child was bitten by a wild fox infected with rabies in Sevastopol. Due to this, the quarantine was introduced in one of the municipal districts of the city, the press service of the Sevastopol government reports.

"Restrictive measures (quarantine) due to rabies are carried out in the Balaklava municipal district of Sevastopol, on the territory of which the village of Flotskoye is located," the report reads, RIA Novosti reports.

The sick fox died, and the child was taken to the emergency room of the fifth city hospital, where he received the necessary medical assistance: doctors examined the injured boy and treated the wound, and the chief freelance infectious disease specialist of the Southern Federal District consulted his parents.