Rabies virus were infected animal bite, the incubation period without any symptoms, slowly progressive, clinical symptoms rarely happen in 20 days, the majority of cases after 30 days or even 4-6 months after onset.
Early in rabies, many patients have low-grade fever, headache, body fat, lazy, nausea, irritability, fear, anxiety and other symptoms.
Then, sick of the sound, light, or like the wind has become extraordinarily sensitive to stimulation, slightly stimulated the immediate feeling of hair tight throat. Been bitten by the animal disease around the wound, but also have numbness, hands and feet seemed to have ants crawling.
After 23 days, his condition to enter the exciting period. Patient in a highly excited state. Outstanding performance for the extreme terror, fear of water, afraid of the wind, experiencing sound, light, wind and so on, there will be a serious throat muscles spasm. Although very sick thirsty but did not dare to drink water, drink the water can not swallow, or even hear the voice of water, or others that water, will also appear throat spasms. Serious when there are sick of the whole body convulsive pain, resulting in dyspnea. Rabies patients, the majority of sober mind; However, there are some patients suffer from mental disorders, said ravings.
Exciting period of about two or three days later, the patient becomes quiet down, but the resulting full-body paralysis, respiratory and blood circulatory functions there will be failure, quickly fell into a coma, more than a dozen hours later, would die. Rabies course, there is generally no more than six days.
Hydrophobia manic type are most specific to one of the symptoms of rabies, hydrophobia performance not seen in other diseases, so it is with evidence of disease.
