A coroner is calling for changes to the travel history patients must provide to doctors, following the death of a woman from rabies. Yvonne Ford, 59, died four months after contracting the fatal disease when she was scratched by a puppy in Morocco in February 2025. Ford, from Barnsley, went to hospital in June with symptoms, including severe headaches, nausea, and mobility issues, but was only diagnosed when a psychiatrist asked about her travel history. After jurors returned a narrative conclusion stating the rarity of the disease led to difficulties with her diagnosis, coroner Marilyn Whittle said she would write to the government urging a review of the current 21 day notification period. The inquest in Sheffield had heard that medics at Barnsley Hospital had struggled to diagnose Ford's condition because of a lack of exposure to rabies cases - which are extremely rare in the UK - and it was initially suspected she may have Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness, or be experiencing a mental health episode.…