Rabies death prompts call for more extensive patient travel history checks

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By Daniel Pye and Dave Higgens, PA Media

A coroner is calling for an urgent review of clinical guidelines on travel history assessment following the death of a woman from rabies contracted abroad.

Yvonne Ford, 59, died four months after she suffered a minor scratch when she startled on dog under her sun lounger on a beach during a holiday in Morocco.