Rabies

it is neurological, destroys brain cells. it is treatable after the subject is infected but before it sets in. the test for rabies must be done post-mortem as it involves disection of the brain. to be positively identified as having rabies, the subject is already dead. if you think you or your pet may have come into contact with a rabid animal, do something now! the only person i know of who died of rabies contracted it from bats living in her attic. she seemingly went insane in the last months of her life, and the rabies diagnosis was made only in the autopsy.

"A vector is an animal, insect, or living organism that can carry and transmit communicable diseases to humans. The abatement or proper handling of vectors is important to the prevention of human illness." -

http://www.yolocounty.org/org/Health/eh/general/bitesandvectors.asp#vector

Therefore, a bat, a skunk, a dog or whatever animal carrying rabies is a vector... meaning rabies (a communicable disease) is a vector transmitted disease.

No, only mammals can catch rabies. Turtles have been known to carry salmonella and many other diseases though

[ then you cant poop ]

^-- While the previous statement is probably true (after a while)

I'm assuming your body will poison itself, it's no longer producing any anti-agents for the toxins that are normally filtered by your various internal organs, so your blood would effectively be polluted with all sorts of crap you're normally shielded from.

Eventually, you'll die quite the painful death.

I'll start with prevention, which is the much more common response to a potential rabies exposure. The latest protocol is a series of 5 intramuscular shots vaccinating you against rabies (these can be given in the upper arm) as well as a large dose of anti-rabies IgG injected as close to the wound site as possible. This is validated to be very effective in preventing a person from developing rabies.

Treatment once clinical symptoms start is another matter - it takes strong anti-viral drugs, a medially-induced coma and artificially lowering the body temperature to attempt to treat rabies. This has so far only been successful once, on a teenage girl from Wisconsin, United States and is called the Wisconsin protocol - it has yet to be successfully replicated elsewhere.

I think Godzilla did because he had rabies. Then he told Snow White and the seven dwarfs to put on a show because he was the first one to create rabies vaccine. They put on the best rabies show ever and that's when animal scientists stole his idea and said they made it. True story I read it in a animal science book.

While it is far from common, and certainly not guaranteed, youcan get rabies from touching an animal that has been in contact with a rabid animal. What has to happen is that the blood or saliva of the rabid animal is on the fur or skin of the animal you touch. Then that blood or saliva has to get into your body through a break in your skin such as a cut, sore, or abrasion or by being transferred to a body opening like the eye, mouth or nose, where mucous membranes can permit entry of the virus.

Rabies is a viral infection of the central nervous system, which means it affects the brain, spinal cord, and their surrounding membranes. A person with rabies has difficulty drinking because the salivary glands are also affected. For this reason, rabies is sometimes referred to as hydrophobia, which means fear of water

There is never a solid answer to questions like this one. Sorry....

Rabies is a parasite) organism,"bug" that infiltrates the blood stream from an animal bite from an infected animal or even contact with saliva from an infected animal. Rabies attacks brain tissue and destroys the "synapse" between nerves in the brain. Untreated it is usually always fatal.

Yes. He caught it while fighting a rabid wolf.

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Nobody in the world today has smallpox, the disease no longer exists. There might still be a few people in the last places to receive the vaccine that survived an infection of it, but they no longer have it.

The Rabies vaccine was invented in 1885, prior to that, all one could do is hope that he didn't catch the virus if bitten by an animal. They would have used morphine, if available, but typically, someone would simply be tied down and nature would take it's course. There is still no realistic treatment if someone contracts the symptoms, it's already too late. That's why it's so important to get the vaccine.

a bullet-shaped, enveloped RNA virus,

Rabies is a virus the Rhabdoviridae family which cannot survive outside a host body for more than a few seconds. There have been reports of the virus living within a deceased hosts body for up to 48 hours.

Rabies is usually spread from the bite of an infected animal, through transmission of salive, though some instances of non bite-wound infection and infection through scratches has been reported.

No, people do not have rabies but yes people can get rabies. In order words you can only catch rabies, you cannot develop it or be born with it--at least to our current knowledge.

Rabies is a psycho-physiological disease. Your mind obssess over drinking water and you feel tremendously thirsty but your body will not swallow and you are driven into a psychological state of disorder by shear helplessness and panic.

The only way to get rabies is to get bitten by an animal who has caught it from another animal. Its easily treatable via vaccination or by calling your nearest poison control center.

Rabies is a "viral zoonotic neuroinvasive disease

{a living organism that invades your nervous system} that causes acute encephalitisbrain) in mammals {It can make your brain swell}

It is most commonly caused by a bite from an infected animal, but occasionally by other forms of contact. If left untreated in humans it is almost invariably fatal. In some countries it is a significant killer of livestock. The rabies virus makes its way to the brain by following the peripheral nerves." (wikipedia.org)

In other words, if you have been bitten by an animal you should get treatment immediately from an emergency room or quickly accessible doctor.

yes

All animals can carry rabies, except for the hyena, which is immune to it, but can still carry it.

From another animal bite?

· Anxiety, stress, and tension

· Drooling

· Convulsions

· Exaggerated sensation at the bite site

· Excitability

· Loss of feeling in an area of the body

· Loss of muscle function

· Low-grade fever (102 degrees F or lower)

· Muscle spasms

· Numbness and tingling

· Pain at the site of the bite

· Restlessness

· Swallowing difficulty (drinking causes spasms of the voicebox)

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That is a very good question! Normally the animal bites the person on extremity. When you take proper wound care the incubation period for rabies goes well beyond one month. Your vaccine starts working by two to three weeks. When in doubt, you give rabies immunoglobulin to the patient. So you can always give vaccine to the patient

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