Soldier dies of dog bite.

This is crazy.  via Military.com.

A U.S. soldier died of rabies after being bitten by a dog in Afghanistan, U.S. health authorities said on Thursday.
The 24-year-old male first complained in mid-August 2011 of symptoms including shoulder and neck pain, odd sensations in his hands and fainting, shortly after arriving at Fort Drum, N.Y., for a new military assignment.
"He was lucid and described having received a dog bite on the right hand during January 2011 while deployed to Afghanistan," said the report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tests confirmed that the patient had a type of canine rabies associated with dogs in Afghanistan, the CDC report said.
The soldier's condition swiftly deteriorated after he was hospitalized on Aug. 19.
He suffered a severe brain hemorrhage and after consulting with doctors who said recovery was unlikely, the family withdrew life support. The soldier, whose name was withheld by the CDC, died on Aug. 31.

This makes your heart break.  To survive mines, IED's and bullets and to die of a dog bite?

I'm not about to throw stones at Army medicine, but what happened here?  All the warnings about not befriending stray animals in that hell hole--to report bites and this went unnoticed?

I WASN'T THERE SO I DON'T KNOW.

But this sucks.  This really sucks.