1978年10月,一名患眼疾的妇女,在美国爱达荷州博伊西的一间医院接受了异体角膜移植后50天死于狂犬病;而供角膜的男性死者系从另一间医院转来的,开始误诊为格林—巴氏综合征,以后才证实患的也是狂犬病。正是这位死于狂犬病者的角膜传播了狂犬病毒。这是世界上首先报告的狂犬病患者可向健康人传播狂犬病的医例。事件发生后,当地卫生部门对接触过2例狂犬病人的医护人 In October 1978, a woman with eye disease died of rabies 50 days after receiving a corneal transplant in a hospital in Boise, Idaho, and a male corneal deceased was transferred from another hospital , Began to misdiagnose as Green-Barre syndrome, later confirmed that the disease is also rabies. It is the rabies who died of rabies which transmitted the rabies virus. This is the first report in the world that rabies patients can transmit rabies to healthy people. After the incident, the local health department had contact with two rabies care workers