1. First of all, it's not just cats and dogs with rabies that carry rabies virus. Healthy cats and dogs may also carry rabies virus in their saliva. If people play with cats and dogs and are accidentally scratched by cats and dogs, they may also be infected with rabies virus. Especially those stray cats and dogs on the street, who live in the wild for a long time, are more likely to be infected and carry rabies virus than ordinary domestic cats and dogs.
Secondly, if you are scratched by cats and dogs, you must not be careless. If there is a scratch that causes skin damage, it must be handled in time. It is best to inject rabies vaccine within 24 hours. Even domestic cats and dogs do not rule out the possibility of not being infected with rabies virus, so if you are scratched by cats and dogs in your life and infected with rabies virus, you will definitely get rabies, just depending on the duration of the disease.
3. After being scratched by cats and dogs, whether the scratched cats and dogs are immune. People are likely to get rabies. Rabies is a natural epidemic disease, and warm-blooded animals are easily infected with rabies virus. The main storage host of rabies virus is wild animals, but the rabies virus infected by humans is mainly carried and spread by cats and dogs. So people who keep cats and dogs should pay attention.
After being scratched by cats and dogs, you must deal with the wound in time. It is best to wash the wound repeatedly with soapy water and clean water. At the same time, pay attention to the dirty blood produced by squeezing out scratches during cleaning. After thoroughly cleaning the wound, apply iodine or alcohol to the wound, but it is best not to cover the wound and expose it. Then, immediately go to the CDC to inject rabies vaccine. This has a good effect on preventing rabies.