About Rabies

About Rabies

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Rabies is a virus disease with severe injuring of central nervous system (CNS). Is transferred mainly via bite of diseased animals (dog, cat, wolf, rat) when saliva containing virus gets into wound. The virus spreads then by lymphatic ways and partially by blood-vascular system and achieves salivary glands and nerve cells of cerebral cortex, affecting of which causes severe irreversible damage.

Symptoms and course

Incubation period is 15-55 days, but it can last half- year or even more. The disease has three periods:

1. prodrormal period lasts 1-3 days. It is followed by increase of temperature, depression state, bad sleep, insomnia, feeling of anxiety. Pain of the bite usually feels even after it was skinned.

2. arousal period lasts 4-7 days. It is characterized by hypersensitiveness for sensation of sense organs: bright light and various noises cause cramps of limb muscles.

Diseased become aggressive; hallucinations, insanity, feeling of fear appear.

3. period of paralysis of eye-muscles and lower limbs; severe paralytic disorders of breath cause death. General duration of the disease is 5-8 days, in some cases 10-12 days.

Recognition

Here important is presence of bite and getting saliva of the diseased animal on affected skin. One of the main important symptom of the disease is hydrophobia that is characterized by spasm of pharyngal musculature only at sight of water and food what makes it impossible to drink even a glass of water. Also there can be a symptom of aerophobia - muscle cramps that appear at every air motion. Hypersalivation is definitive symptom, in some cases diseased get their saliva leaked out of angles of their mouth.

There is no need in laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis but it is possible to make examination with the newest method of rabis virus antigen detecting by using the footprints from the surface eye membranes.

Treatment

There are no effective methods what makes in majority of cases problematic life saving of the diseased. It is necessary to use nosotropic methods to ease painful condition. Doctors remove motor excitement with alleviant remedies, they remove cramps with muscle relaxant. Breathing problems are compensated with tracheotomy and connection of the diseased to artificial lung.

Preventive Measures

Fighting with rabies among dogs, extermination of vagabond dogs. People bitted with a diseased animal should immediately wash wound with warm boiled water (with or without soap) and to process it with 70% spiritus or iodine alcoholate, and as soon as possible, to go to the doctor to vaccinate. It consists of serum injection or antirabic immunoglobulin and is made deep in the wound and in soft tissues around it. You should know that vaccination is effective just in case when it is made within 14 days from the bite of rabid animal and in case that for that purpose is used hyper-immune vaccine.

About Rabies

Rabies is a virus disease with severe injuring of central nervous system (CNS). Is transferred mainly via bite of diseased animals (dog, cat, wolf, rat) when saliva containing virus gets into wound. The virus spreads then by lymphatic ways and partially by blood-vascular system and achieves salivary glands and nerve cells of cerebral cortex, affecting of which causes severe irreversible damage.

Symptoms and course

Incubation period is 15-55 days, but it can last half- year or even more. The disease has three periods:

1. prodrormal period lasts 1-3 days. It is followed by increase of temperature, depression state, bad sleep, insomnia, feeling of anxiety. Pain of the bite usually feels even after it was skinned.

2. arousal period lasts 4-7 days. It is characterized by hypersensitiveness for sensation of sense organs: bright light and various noises cause cramps of limb muscles.

Diseased become aggressive; hallucinations, insanity, feeling of fear appear.

3. period of paralysis of eye-muscles and lower limbs; severe paralytic disorders of breath cause death. General duration of the disease is 5-8 days, in some cases 10-12 days.

Recognition

Here important is presence of bite and getting saliva of the diseased animal on affected skin. One of the main important symptom of the disease is hydrophobia that is characterized by spasm of pharyngal musculature only at sight of water and food what makes it impossible to drink even a glass of water. Also there can be a symptom of aerophobia - muscle cramps that appear at every air motion. Hypersalivation is definitive symptom, in some cases diseased get their saliva leaked out of angles of their mouth.

There is no need in laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis but it is possible to make examination with the newest method of rabis virus antigen detecting by using the footprints from the surface eye membranes.

Treatment

There are no effective methods what makes in majority of cases problematic life saving of the diseased. It is necessary to use nosotropic methods to ease painful condition. Doctors remove motor excitement with alleviant remedies, they remove cramps with muscle relaxant. Breathing problems are compensated with tracheotomy and connection of the diseased to artificial lung.

Preventive Measures

Fighting with rabies among dogs, extermination of vagabond dogs. People bitted with a diseased animal should immediately wash wound with warm boiled water (with or without soap) and to process it with 70% spiritus or iodine alcoholate, and as soon as possible, to go to the doctor to vaccinate. It consists of serum injection or antirabic immunoglobulin and is made deep in the wound and in soft tissues around it. You should know that vaccination is effective just in case when it is made within 14 days from the bite of rabid animal and in case that for that purpose is used hyper-immune vaccine.

It is very frightening both physically and mentally when you are bit by animals. One important thing that you must worry about, especially with wild animal bites, is the transmission of the rabies virus. Rabies causes death when not caught and treated immediately.

Both wild and domestic animals have been known to leave their marks on people. Even beloved pets can cause an accident. For example, your dog might love you and serve as your protector, but certain things can trigger a dog to bite its master. This includes extreme fright, as well as possessiveness and even playfulness. Your dog may not mean to hurt you, but its teeth can sink deep into your skin, possibly breaking into a major blood vessel and causing nerve damage as well.

While you may not usually expect a domestic pet to bite, you should always be careful around wild animals. Remember, as terrifying as a bat in your house can be, they are also incredibly afraid of you as well. Therefore, when you are trying to get the bat out of your house, it may bite you in self-defense. This is alarming because bats tend to be the most common carriers of rabies that pass along the virus to humans. Other typical wild animals with rabies are foxes, raccoons, and skunks. Domestic animals with rabies are usually cats, cattle, and dogs.

Rabies is a virus that can infect both animals and people. It causes encephalopathy, which is inflammation of the lining around the brain that can even make the brain itself swell.  This normally proves to be fatal in animals and humans if the person is infected without knowing it.

With rabies, knowledge is power. For humans, rabies usually causes death. However, if a person is bitten by an animal and goes to the doctor right away, they can be given rabies shots that will usually rid them of the virus. Therefore, it can be a good idea to capture an animal that bites you so that you can get it tested to see if it is a carrier of the rabies virus.

For your pets, there are several ways that you can protect them-and yourself-from catching the rabies virus. First, keep them secured in your yard. Pets who wander can be bitten by a rabid animal and given rabies. Next, veterinarians offer rabies vaccinations, and you can keep your pet immunized against the disease. Lastly, you should consider securing your pet indoors at night and during other times when the nocturnal, wild animals roam.

If you or someone you know has been bitten by an animal, it may count as a personal injury. For more information on domestic animal bites and other personal injury issues, check out Vic Feazell, the Austin personal injury law expert.

 

 

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