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How is the fear of rabies treated?
By giving placebo injections or anti-rabies injections. That depend on the individual patient and local legislation.
A patient with rabies is given _____ to treat the infection?
hyperimmune specific antibodies
Why observe the bitten patient for 14 days for indication of rabies?
You never ever observe the patient for indication of rabies. You will like to observe the dog. If the dog is healthy for eight days, there is no problem to the patient. In my practice I have been observing the dog for ten days. That is over protective response. It looks that newer generation watch the dog for 14 days. Even if the animal dies of proven rabies after ten days, the patient is supposed to be free of rabies. Literature says of 8 days only.
Can cattle get rabies?
Yes. Any mammal can get rabies.
Are rabies deadly?
Rabies has not been found to be contagious from person to person. In theory, if a person infected with rabies were to bite someone else, the virus might spread, but no such cases have been recorded.
Can water be a vector of rabies transmission?
Patient of rabies get hydrophobia. So he can not drink the water to transmit the rabies. All the animals and man also gets rabies virus in the saliva, few days before symptoms appear. So transmission by this route can not be excluded.
Can a person get infected if she lives with a rabies patient?
Normally not. But to be on safer side, she should be given three shots of rabies vaccine on day 0, 7, and 28.
Is their any immunity or vaccine against rabies?
Yes. There is a rabies vaccine.
Does a flying fox have rabies?
No species inherently has rabies, but any mammal can get it.
Are any animals less likely to get rabies?
Opossums are less likely to get rabies
Can chipmunks give dogs rabies?
Yes. Any mammal can transmit rabies.
Do bush dogs have rabies?
Rabies can infect any mammal. However, most mammals, and most bush dogs, do not have rabies.
