Many animals in life may carry rabies virus, such as common cats, dogs, monkeys, bats, ferrets and so on.
1. Rabies Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus. The clinical manifestations of rabies include fear of water, fear of wind-pharynx muscle spasm, progressive paralysis and so on.
At present, there is no effective treatment for rabies, and the mortality rate after illness is close to 100%. The average patient died of respiratory fire circulation failure 3-6 days after onset.
Rabies is mainly transmitted to people through animals carrying rabies virus. The source of infection is mainly sick dogs, actually sick cats and other animals. After a person is bitten by a sick animal, the virus in the saliva of the animal will enter the human body through the wound, and a few patients may get sick because the conjunctiva is polluted by the saliva of the sick animal.
Second, which animals carry rabies virus? Almost all warm-blooded animals may carry rabies virus, including all kinds of poultry and livestock, small mammals and even all kinds of wild animals.
We call it rabies, because dogs are only animals that people contact most and carry this virus. At present, the greatest risk of human illness comes from domestic dogs, especially dogs raised in rural areas.
Dogs are kept all over the world, and dogs were domesticated by humans much earlier than other animals. Another feature of dogs is that they may bite people. Even dogs that are not sick will bite strangers, so many people are bitten by dogs every year. Once this dog carries rabies virus, then people may be infected with the virus.
Some animals are bitten by mad dogs and don't get sick and die, but there is a lot of rabies virus in saliva, which will get sick and die if bitten, and this "healthy" animal carrying the virus is still there.
Hidden animals carrying rabies virus account for about 15.2%, which is the most dangerous source of infection. Therefore, no matter whether the biting animals are definitely carrying rabies virus, they need to be vaccinated with rabies vaccine as soon as possible after being bitten. As for biting animals, the ten-day observation method is aimed at them.
China is a country with high incidence of rabies, especially in rural areas, and the vaccination rate of pets such as cats and dogs is very low. Once bitten or scratched by them, it is difficult to guarantee that these animals will not carry rabies virus, so the wound must be treated immediately and vaccinated immediately. Ten-day observation is just a way of judging. Once something happens to this animal ten days later, it will be too late for human beings to take measures.