Post by Brian Roebuck on Sept 23, 2007 7:38:31 GMT -5
Facebook turns up rabid bat woman
September 23, 2007
CANADIAN health officials have found a new use for the online social network Facebook - to find a woman who needed rabies shots after touching a rabid bat.
A Toronto Public Health spokeswoman said it explored all the traditional methods - the telephone book, Google, the police, even a media appeal - to find the woman who had taken an injured bat to the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month. But no one stepped forward.
www.smh.com.au/news/world/facebook-turns-up-rabid-bat-woman/2007/09/22/1189881837493.html
More here too:
torontoist.com/2007/09/batrabies.php
September 23, 2007
CANADIAN health officials have found a new use for the online social network Facebook - to find a woman who needed rabies shots after touching a rabid bat.
A Toronto Public Health spokeswoman said it explored all the traditional methods - the telephone book, Google, the police, even a media appeal - to find the woman who had taken an injured bat to the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month. But no one stepped forward.
www.smh.com.au/news/world/facebook-turns-up-rabid-bat-woman/2007/09/22/1189881837493.html
More here too:
torontoist.com/2007/09/batrabies.php