Rabies virus mainly reproduces in the salivary glands of dogs and infects humans through residual saliva in the wound after biting. If your wound is not bleeding, the chance of infection is unlikely.
Suggestions: If this happens, you should immediately flush the wound with plenty of water. It is best to go to the hospital for a rabies vaccine injection. You already have antibodies and have received a booster shot recently, so don’t panic too much.
Today Xiaoqi received a letter from Xiaoqi, saying:
She loves pets and would like to have a dog. When his mother knew about this idea, Mom quietly found a video. The content of the video was that a child got rabies after being bitten by a dog. It was very pitiful. I want Xiao Qi to help give me some advice on how to convince her mom to let her keep a pet.
At this point, this mother’s original intention is for the safety of her children. Rabies is indeed a very terrible infectious disease. Symptoms of rabies include fear of water, fear of wind, pharyngeal muscle spasm, progressive paralysis, etc., and once you get rabies, you will never die. Methods to cure.
However, there are some little things you need to know here.
1. Rabies is mainly transmitted through dog or cat saliva coming into contact with human blood. Moreover, rabies virus is only present in the saliva during the onset of rabies, but not in the saliva of dogs during the incubation period. The Ten-Day Observation Method was born based on this.
The ten-day observation method means that after being bitten or scratched by a suspected mad animal (dog or cat, etc.), the animal is kept and observed for ten days (in areas where rabies is prevalent, vaccination needs to be injected first and then observed). If the animal is under ten days of observation, If the animal remains healthy during the observation period of three days, or if it is confirmed by reliable laboratory diagnostic technology that the animal does not carry the rabies virus, the remaining vaccinations can be stopped.
2. Can you be infected with rabies if you are scratched? In fact, the scratch itself will not cause rabies infection. Rabies virus mainly exists in saliva, and some animals with rabies may be infected if they lick their paws and then scratch people. But in fact, rabies virus is an anaerobic virus and can only survive in the air for a few minutes, so the chance of infection from scratches is relatively small.
3. The rabies virus is transmitted between animals generally by biting each other and then becoming infected. Healthy animals themselves will not produce rabies virus for no reason. Therefore, if the cat is kept completely indoors, it is almost impossible to be infected with rabies virus. Dogs need to be taken out for walks from time to time. If they fight with stray dogs, they may be infected. So if you have a dog, you must keep it on a leash when going out.
Therefore, to sum up, with scientific breeding, you can actually determine whether your pet is sick:
The incidence of rabies is actually very low. Even if you are bitten by a dog during the disease period and are not vaccinated, the incidence rate is 15% to 20%. However, because once the disease occurs, it is extremely harmful, so it still needs to be treated with caution. As a reminder, bats may also carry rabies virus, so if there are bats in your home, try not to fight them. It is better to drive them away. If unfortunately you are bitten, it is best to get vaccinated.
Don’t be too afraid of rabies, because the chance is really low; but don’t take it completely seriously, because the consequences are really serious. If you are really afraid of rabies, then raising a cat that does not go out is also a good choice. There are really very few cases of cats being infected with rabies.
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