Rabies

Never. Rabies or hydrophobia is purely a mammal's disease.

squirrels!


Any warm blooded mammal can get rabies and also pass it on through their salvia to the next mammal. The salvia from the affected mammal would have to get into something like an open wound, in your mouth, in your nose or eyes, etc. That is why it is so important to vaccinate our pets against Rabies.

Yes, horses can become infected with rabies. This is why your horse should be vaccinated against rabies every year, since your horse can become infected with and die from rabies.

Only if the human doing the biting was/is infected with it.

Directly from the CDC website:Small rodents (e.g., squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.

A rabid animal is one that is infected with the rabies virus. If an animal isn't infected with with the rabies virus, it isn't rabid.

The signs of this virus don't necessarily show immediately upon exposure, but after a period of incubation which is determined in large part to the distance the disease has to travel to reach it's goal; the central nervous system. It usually requires several months; but once there, the infection begins to show the signs that most people associate with rabies.

Signs of rabies include nonspecific symptoms initially: lethargy, fever, vomiting, and anorexia, acting/looking sick. Signs progress within days of infection to cerebral dysfunction, cranial nerve dysfunction, ataxia (loss of coordinated muscle movement), weakness, paralysis, seizures, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, excessive salivation, foaming at the mouth, unusual behavior, aggression, snarling, baring it's teeth, biting, and/or self-mutilation. Rabies is almost always fatal, due to acute encephalitis. Confirmation of infection is done postmortem by analyzing brain tissue.

Because rabies can be transmitted through saliva, if possible, attempt to safely contain any animal that has bitten someone, and keep it isolated while monitoring it closely for signs of illness. Contact your veterinarian, or local Animal Control, Health Dept, CDC, or Wildlife and Game Warden immediately. They will have the information, equipment, and facilities to transport and quarantine the animal properly.

The paw prints of an infected animal might be more wide-spread than a healthy one. The animal may not be foaming from the mouth. An infected wild animal if nocturnal, maybe out in broad daylight, behaving strangely and making odd sounds. Sometimes an infected animal (wild or tame) will not spook, or shy away as you expect, but in fact, it will stand it's ground, displaying odd behavior and even try to attack you or a pet, repeatedly.

Much of this information was obtained directly from the CDC. For more details, please see sites listed below.

Yes! -But you forgot they could be shooed away by waving with a stick or hand or kicking and remember NEVER turn your back on a wild animal even if it doesn't have SIGNS of rabies.

NO as rabies germs are present in its saliva only not the nails.As if there is a case that the dog has dirty nails due to which it gets bacterial and also the dog licks his own claw and nails due to which the saliva gets transmit into claw or nails they get virus .As rabies virus is in saliva of animals.Also there must be precaution from licking of animal which contain rabies on cut or wound surface of body as then the virus through saliva gets transmitted into body.

The rabies infection varies all different ages from ages one and up.

i looked it up and it says that rabies is caused by a virus, the lyssa virus or the Rhabdo-virus.

It depends upon the country. Rabies is not present in Australia, so possums and rats in Australia cannot get rabies.

In North America, opossums rarely contract rabies (see the related link below for one documented case), but rats can certainly be carriers.

You don't, at least in America. Rabies vaccine must, by law, be administered by a registered vet.

There have been only 1 death in the us in 2010.

If you think you've been exposed to the rabies virus, it's very important to get medical care before symptoms begin. If symptoms appear, it's too late for a cure, and the infection will probably lead to death. The time from exposure to the virus until symptoms appear usually is 2 to 3 months. In rare cases, it may be shorter or much longer.

Louis Pastaur discovered the vaccine for anthrax and chicken cholera

Any mammal can have rabies, but no animal inhenerntly has it. A wild animal that contracts rabies will die within a few weeks.

Rabies is transmitted by bite of rabid animals. Usually the carnivorous animals transmit the rabies. The virus is there in the saliva of the rabid animals.

Rabies is a virus that attacks the brain of a mammal infected and eventually kills. Rabies has been around for thousands of years to my knowledge, the origin is unknown. Transmition begins with an infected host (also known as a vector), the host transmits the virus to a potential victim by direct contact with the syliva of the host, example; a bite. The victim becomes the new host and passes the virus on to the next. The virus can take weeks (sometimes, but rarely, months) to present symptoms even though the virus is present in the host. Once the virus progresses, the symptoms present as neurological. Examples: wobbley gate, circling, hydrophobia (fear of water) aggression, foaming at the mouth are the most common. These can also be symptoms of other diseases, so not all mammals showing signs have rabies, but the risk of coming into contact is not worth possible rabies exposure! Some common mythes about rabies is that if you see a nocturnal animal during the day, it must have rabies. Untrue, the animal may have been disturbed by something in it's area, such as construction or another animal. Some animals change their nocturnal behavior when they are raising their young, mom needs more nutrition to produce milk. Some people believe a dog is rabid if it is aggressive and foaming at the mouth, also untrue, some dogs when in an aggressive state naturally produce more syliva. The best rule of thumb to follow is "when in doubt, get out.". Do not turn and run if you can avoid it, it triggers an attack response, back-off slowly, and steadily. Do not touch a dead animal, you don't know what it died of. If you believe you've come in contact with a rabid animal, seek immmediate medical attention and have it reported to Animal Control or the EPA. If the animal is caught it can be tested for the virus, which may or may not play a roll in the medical protocol required by your state. If you need more info you can log on to the CDC (Center for Disease Conrol).

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When a rabid dog bites an individual, the Rabies Virus (RV) gets inoculated into muscle. After undergoing a local replication in the muscle, RV enters the motor neurons and travels in a retrograde manner to reach the brain. The virus then replicates in the brain establishing the neurological symptoms and then reaches the salivary glands by centrifugal flow thus making the individual infective.

Studies have revealed that Phosphoprotein (P protein) of the RV binds to the dyenin protein present in the neuronal cells which aid in the transport through the neuron. Acetyl choline receptors have proven to act as receptors for virus binding and susequent entry into the neuronal cells. It has also been revealed that the hypocampal region in the brain is the center of RV infection from where the virus spreads to different parts of the CNS.

Not all rabbits need shots, but some rabbits do. Whether or not your rabbits need shots depends on where you live (for instance, in the UK, rabbits need shots against Myxomatosis and VHD; in Canada, they don't need any shots). Your vet can tell you whether or not your rabbit needs shots.

Approximately 50,000 people each year worldwide are killed by rabies bites. Most of the victims are children. Most of the infections come from dog bites.

Theoretically Rabies virus can be transmitted through milk but the viability and infectivity of the virus is less than the virus shed through the saliva and through the bite of the rabid animal. Moreover, virus is heat labile and can be inactivated by the temperature even below the pasterurisation temperature and this property of the virus does not pose risk to the personnel consuming pasteurised milk or boiled milk.

Dr. S. Vamshi Krishna.

Pigs cannot typically get rabies. There has been one case since 1960.

My sister gives our dogs all their shots except rabies. She can get the vaccine, but not the tag, so you wouldn't have an acceptable record to show for it. We are in NE Ohio.

Here's a better answer... Yes you can. I live in Ohio and buy my dogs' rabies vaccines here:

http://www.wholesalekennel.com

It's in North Carolina.

They send you the vaccine, syringe, certificate and tag. Very reasonably priced and shipped well packaged with a cold-pack to protect them from heat. They also have other medications and vaccinations. It saves a lot of trouble and expense by not having to haul all the animals down to the vet!

Well, I'll one up the answer above... YES, you can have the Rabies vaccine shipped to your house in the state of Ohio (it is one of the few states as of right now that it is not illegal to ship it to); however, I must tell you that according to the state of Ohio your dog will not be deemed Rabies vaccinated because it was not given by a licensed veterinarian. In which case, if your dog ever bit anyone it would be put through the same quarantine and procedure as a dog that has never been rabies vaccinated. If you are unfamiliar with this, the dog is in quarantine for 10 days, no contact with any animals what-so-ever and minimal interaction with humans, if within those 10 days the dog shows symptoms that could be foreseen as a potential rabies case - well the dog will be euthanized and tested for rabies. All in all, it's just better to do it at a veterinarian.