During one of her agitation attacks she had bitten Foreman and transmitted the rabies infection.
A targeted immune response to MBP has been researched in lethal rabies infection.
Prevention of rabies infection still requires the use of both vaccine and immunoglobulin treatments.
The State Health Department said yesterday that they had found 1,824 cases of rabies infection among animals so far this year, 1,649 of them in raccoons.
He added that it is difficult to determine the cause of rabies infection because the victims "tend to be exposed to something innocuous or familiar."
Cerebral inclusion bodies called Negri bodies are 100% diagnostic for rabies infection but are found in only about 80% of cases.
If there is any risk of rabies infection, the health care provider will recommend anti-rabies treatment.
Experimental studies of rabies infection in the Virginia opossum have shown the importance of the mode of transmission.
This is a medical rarity, as human rabies infections in the developed world are extremely rare.
The risk of rabies infection cannot be significantly different simply because the purpose of the pet's journey is different.