Rabies is a highly contagious zoonotic disease

Rabies is a highly contagious zoonotic disease that has a very high mortality rate and can pass between dogs, dogs and other domestic animals and wild animals, Dogs and people spread the disease to each other. After the rabies virus invades the dog's body, it begins to attack after an incubation period of 15 to 50 days. The affected dog has an abnormal temperament, is nervous, and often sheds a large amount of saliva in the mouth, and the saliva contains a large amount of rabies virus. Two or three days later, the ears droop, the tail droops, it feels like sitting on pins and needles, the bark is low and hoarse, and it is highly aggressive towards people or livestock. People or other animals may become infected with rabies if they are bitten, scratched or come into contact with their saliva.

Symptoms of human infection with rabies

Humans have no natural immunity to rabies. After being bitten by a sick dog, the virus moves along the peripheral nerve axis toward the central nervous system at a speed of 1 to 3mm/hour. Once it invades, The cell bodies multiply in large numbers and then invade the entire central nervous system. At this time, even injection of rabies vaccine will not help. At the onset of rabies, a person appears distraught. Loss of appetite, nervousness, and low fever. Headache, fatigue and other symptoms that look like colds; then the condition worsens, the patient's body temperature rises to 38 to 40 degrees, the heart beats faster, the blood pressure rises, the patient is afraid of water, wind, and light, and is highly excited and fearful; the patient finally develops systemic symptoms Symptoms of paralysis and paralysis, respiratory and circulatory system failure, and eventually laryngeal muscle spasm and death.

Prevention of rabies is important

1. Do not purchase, contact or adopt unlicensed dogs of unknown origin at will;

2. Strengthen the breeding and management of dogs and prevent them from wandering outdoors;

3. Regular inspection and vaccination of rabies vaccine for dogs; if bitten by a dog, rinse the wound repeatedly with clean water and 20% soapy water for at least 20 minutes, and squeeze and rinse with 0.1% clean 3% iodine. and disinfect the blood within the wound, then vaccinate and heal the wound. Epidemic Prevention Station.

The rabies vaccine is injected into the deltoid muscle of the upper arm, and in children, it is injected into the anteromedial area of ​​the thigh. For general bites, 1ml or 2ml should be injected on days 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30. For serious bites, double the amount of vaccine should be injected on days 0 and 3. It is advisable to inject minute needles into the deltoid muscles on both sides, and inject at 0 Anti-rabies serum or immune globulin should be applied every day, and booster shots should be injected on the 15th, 75th or 10th, 20th, and 90th days after the whole process.

It should be noted that a single injection of rabies vaccine is only valid for 6 months. If you are bitten by a sick dog after 6 months, you will need to be injected with rabies vaccine again.