What is rabies? What if you get rabies?

What is rabies?
Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus invading the central nervous system. Humans, domestic animals and wild animals can be infected. The clinical manifestations are characterized by fear of water, also known as water-induced disease. Once rabies develops, it progresses rapidly, with the majority of the disease occurring in 3-5 days, rarely exceeding 10 days, and almost 100% of deaths.

What is rabies? What if you get rabies?

Human rabies is mainly caused by the rabies virus in the animal's saliva invading the human body through the wound of the bite when the animal bites. The wounded animal is more common in dogs, and the folks in China are also called "mad dog disease".

How serious is the harm of rabies?
Foreign expert Fleming once said: "There is no disease in the world, and its pain and mortality can be compared with rabies." Although human rabies is sporadic, it is indeed an important public health problem because millions of people around the world are bitten by crazy animals, and patients with rabies will experience a cruel and deadly process. The number of rabies deaths reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) each year is 55,000, and the vast majority of deaths are children and adolescents. Almost all rabies patients diagnosed to date have died without exception.