‘Unusual presentation’ of rabies on grandmother affected diagnosis but ‘did not affect fatal outcome’

Difficulties in diagnosing rabies in a grandmother who was scratched by a dog on holiday did not affect the fatal outcome, a jury has found.

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