About rabies

About rabies: Rabies, also known as hydrophobia, is caused by the rabies virus, a zoonotic an acute infectious disease of the central nervous system. Rabies virus RNA-based Rhabdovirus through saliva dissemination, was particularly prevalent in dogs, wolves, cats and other predators.
Rabies is the world's highest fatality rate of the disease, once the disease, the mortality rate is almost 100%. In recent years, with dogs and pet and the lack of increase in the number of dogs and cats and other pets strict management, in addition to rabies prevention and control of knowledge is not enough to make our country the incidence of rabies has been picked up for 5 consecutive years. According to the Ministry of Health statistics are available, to 2003 rabies fatality rate of the first Habitat types of infectious diseases. Faced with this grim fact that should give full play to the work of nurses in the prevention of intervention role, from the community to the clinic, set to be propaganda, and urge, consultant in a targeted high-risk groups and the Kennel density rural areas, to carry out prevention campaigns, universal rabies prevention and control knowledge, to reduce the incidence of rabies. As a result of rabies in China continued to rise at a high stage, infected animal health has become a serious hidden danger around us, threatening the safety of human life and health. Therefore, after bitten by an animal, wash the timely processing wounds, injecting serum and vaccination is to prevent Rabies three essential steps. Rabies vaccination immune five commonly used acupuncture therapy, immunization time zero, three, seven, 14, 28 days. Those who were seriously injured in the pre-vaccination needs to be anti-rabies serum or injection of rabies immunoglobulin.

Rabies virus were bitten by infected animals, the incubation period without any symptoms, slowly progressive, clinical symptoms rarely occur within 20 days, in most cases after 30 days or even months after the incidence of 4-6.

A person is bitten by rabies if it does not take timely preventive measures, some people will be more than a decade after the onset, but for decades after the onset of the reported lack of scientific basis.