RABIES

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HEALTH ADVISORHow do I prevent

Rabies?

How do I cure

rabies?

What are the symptoms for rabies?

How Do You Get Rabies???

Rabies can be transmitted from animal bites from rabid (wild) animals. These animals include squirrels, raccoons, cats, and any other wild animal. However, in rare cases, it can be transmitted through animal saliva.

What Are The Symptoms of Rabies

The symptoms of rabies in humans include irritability, headache, pain, itching, or twitching at the infection site. Muscle spasms in the throat area will cause breathing problems. Extreme cases of rabies include hallucinations, convulsions, seizures, paralysis, and eventually death.

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How Do You Prevent Rabies???•There is ways to prevent rabies in

animals and humans. For those who have a pet, try to keep your pets vaccinations up to date. Also, keep watch over your pet when it goes into wild animal infested territory. If it gets bit by a wild animal, it may catch rabies. To prevent it in humans, keep away from wild animals for he/she may catch it by being bit too.

How Do You Cure Rabies???

If your child has a rabies shot, the wound should start to heal automatically. However, you should still clean it thoroughly (it WILL hurt). If he/she doesn't have a vaccine, he/she should be taken to the nearest medical center immediately. If a pet has been infected by rabies, then your pet should still be vaccinated and be under owners supervision for 45 days (keep children away from pet infected by rabies)

Epidemiologist

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Where Is Rabies Located?•Rabies can be found anywhere there

are wild animals. That is basically everywhere. The only place that rabies cant be found is in Hawaii. This is because the island has never been exposed to rabies. Therefore, nobody/nothing can get/have rabies. Rabies is mostly found in U.S because the high amount of stray animals.

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How Can It Be Contained?

The most common way to contain rabies is to get a vaccination.

The diploid cell vaccine(HDCV) which is a anti-virus that helps the body

The purified chick embryo cell vaccine(PCEC) Rabies vaccine adsorbed(RVA).Other ways are that to make sure that any pet

that you may have has gotten their shots for rabies and also to keep your children away from any animal that may have been affected.

The Spread Of Rabies

The basic spread of rabies is if the infected animals saliva makes contact with a persons mucas membranes(moist skin). It isn’t really common for a human to pass on rabies to another human. But it is said that it can happen with a transplant. For instants if the person needing a transplant takes any organ from an infected person the virus will spread through the other humans body.

How It Works

Rabies is spread when you are a bitten by an affected animal. The virus spreads all over your body and affects the central nervous system including the brain and spinal cord. The infection causes inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. This can can lead to encephalopathy. Encephalopathy is any type of disease that changes the brain's function or structure.

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