Rabies is a deadly virus that is spread through the saliva of infected animals and get into the bloodstream of patients. Rabies can be transmitted through animal bites to humans. In Indonesia, the animals may transmit the rabies virus is a wild dog.
Once the symptoms of rabies have started to appear on a person, usually fatal disease tends to lead. Therefore, it is important for every person who has the possibility of interaction with wild dogs to get rabies vaccine.
Rabies symptoms often appear until the disease reaches the final stage, the symptoms include:
1. Fever2. Headache
3. Fear
4. Discomfiture
5. Difficulty in swallowing
6. Drooling
7. Fear of water (hydrophobia)
8. Haluinasi
9. Insomnia
10. Partially paralyzed limbs
If there is such an animal as a result of a bat bite or wild dogs, immediately do the examination to the doctor to get an injection of rabies prevention. In fact, if there is no bite, but there are contacts in close proximity to these particular animals, still doing checks for security.
Not only through the bite of an infected animal, rabies can also spread through open wounds accidentally licked by animal carriers of the rabies virus.
Beware of these animals ;
1. Pets and farm animals such as cats, cows, dogs, goats, horses, rabbits, and ferrets.2. Wild animals such as bats, otters, coyotes, raccoons, monkeys, raccoons, skunks, and woodchucks.
Transmission of rabies more likely to occur in people who frequently travel to the interior of Africa and Southeast Asia and has a job that requires direct contact with wild animals. The presence of open wounds on the head and neck is also very dangerous because it helps the virus reaches the brain more quickly. Handling rabies mostly just involves a series of injections to ensure the virus can not thrive.
A rabies injections ;
1. Rabies immune globulin, an injection with a rapid effect, prevent the virus infecting the body and given near the area where an animal bite occurs.2. The series of rabies injections to help the body recognize and fight the rabies virus administered through the arm. A total of 5 injections in two weeks.
Measures for the prevention of rabies is very possible to do.
Some precautions include ;
1. Give vaccines in pets regularly.
2. Frequently putting pets in the house and do not let pets out of the house without supervision.
3. Do not approach a wild animal even if the animal is tame.
4. Cover the ceiling with holes or other places that may be a way in to bat.
5. Surely it yourself get a rabies vaccine if traveling to areas where the spread of these viruses may occur.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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DatePublished: March 4, 2014 at 17:58
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