Rabies is a serious disease that generates from a virus that normally occurs in animals. Humans can only receive this disease from being bitten by an infected animal. Human rabies is almost always fatal. Bats are the most common source of rabies in the United States. Coyotes, dogs, foxes, raccoons, cats, and skunks are also other animals that can spread and transmit the disease as well. (VIS)
People at high risk are given the rabies vaccine to preserve them if they are exposed. If infected, it can also stop the disease after being exposed. The rabies vaccine generates from killed rabies virus. It can only prevent rabies, not cause it. (VIS) Like any medicine, a vaccine can cause significant problems, such as major allergic reactions. The risk …show more content…
(30%-74%)
Headaches, nausea, abdominal pain, muscle aches, dizziness. (5%-40%)
Moderate Problems:
Hives, pain in joints, fever (about 6% of booster doses) Rabies is caused by the rabies virus. The virus infects the brain and normally leads to death. After being bitten by an infected animal, the virus is spread to the muscle and subcutaneous tissue. For most of the incubation period (which is normally one to three months), the virus stays close to the exposure site. The virus then travels via peripheral nerves to the brain and from there, again via peripheral nerves, to nearly all parts of the body. (MedicineNet)
Facts:
About 60,000 people die every year of rabies, mostly in Asia and Africa.
In the U.S., one of three people die from rabies each year.
Animal vaccinations and postexposure prophylaxis protocols have nearly eradicated rabies in the U.S. …show more content…
In The greater number of cases there are sulleness, fidgetiness, and continual shifting of posture.’ Youatt gave an instance of the consequences of failure to diagnose rabies. (West, Pg.20)
About a hundred years ago there was a great increase in the world-wide incidence of rabies, and that situation is now being repeated; with mounting outbreaks of the disease occurring among wildlife in Europe, Asia, Africa, and both North and South America. As the World Health Organization’s Chronicle has started: ‘Rabies is an infection of animal populations; an individual case of the disease in man is only the dramatically visible evidence of this infection.’ (West, Pg.25)
The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that causes rabies in humans and animals. Rabies can be transmitted through saliva of animals and less commonly through contact with human saliva. The rabies virus has a cylindrical morphology and is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. These viruses are enveloped and have a single stranded RNA genome with negative-sense. The genetic information is packaged as a ribonucleoprotein. The RNA genome of the virus encodes five genes whose order is highly conserved. These genes code for nucleoprotein (N), glycoprotein (G), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), and the viral RNA polymerase (L). The complete genome sequences range
People at high risk are given the rabies vaccine to preserve them if they are exposed. If infected, it can also stop the disease after being exposed. The rabies vaccine generates from killed rabies virus. It can only prevent rabies, not cause it. (VIS) Like any medicine, a vaccine can cause significant problems, such as major allergic reactions. The risk …show more content…
(30%-74%)
Headaches, nausea, abdominal pain, muscle aches, dizziness. (5%-40%)
Moderate Problems:
Hives, pain in joints, fever (about 6% of booster doses) Rabies is caused by the rabies virus. The virus infects the brain and normally leads to death. After being bitten by an infected animal, the virus is spread to the muscle and subcutaneous tissue. For most of the incubation period (which is normally one to three months), the virus stays close to the exposure site. The virus then travels via peripheral nerves to the brain and from there, again via peripheral nerves, to nearly all parts of the body. (MedicineNet)
Facts:
About 60,000 people die every year of rabies, mostly in Asia and Africa.
In the U.S., one of three people die from rabies each year.
Animal vaccinations and postexposure prophylaxis protocols have nearly eradicated rabies in the U.S. …show more content…
In The greater number of cases there are sulleness, fidgetiness, and continual shifting of posture.’ Youatt gave an instance of the consequences of failure to diagnose rabies. (West, Pg.20)
About a hundred years ago there was a great increase in the world-wide incidence of rabies, and that situation is now being repeated; with mounting outbreaks of the disease occurring among wildlife in Europe, Asia, Africa, and both North and South America. As the World Health Organization’s Chronicle has started: ‘Rabies is an infection of animal populations; an individual case of the disease in man is only the dramatically visible evidence of this infection.’ (West, Pg.25)
The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that causes rabies in humans and animals. Rabies can be transmitted through saliva of animals and less commonly through contact with human saliva. The rabies virus has a cylindrical morphology and is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. These viruses are enveloped and have a single stranded RNA genome with negative-sense. The genetic information is packaged as a ribonucleoprotein. The RNA genome of the virus encodes five genes whose order is highly conserved. These genes code for nucleoprotein (N), glycoprotein (G), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), and the viral RNA polymerase (L). The complete genome sequences range