Rabies disease caused by rabies virus present in saliva of infected animals. These animals transmit the infection to other animals or humans through the bite and sometimes through a lick. The virus will enter through the nerves to the spinal cord and brain, which is where they multiply. Furthermore the virus will move back through the nerves to the salivary glands and into the saliva. Most often a source of rabies are dogs, other animals can also be a source of rabies infection is a cat, bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. Rabies in dogs is often found in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, because not all pets get a vaccination for this disease.
symptoms of rabies in humans:
1. Intense fear of water, and sensitive to light, air, and sound.
2. excessive saliva out.
3. Becomes large pupils.
4. Talk does not make sense, always wanted to move and seemed in pain.
5. Further characterized by convulsions and paralysis and finally death.
rabies disease treatments:
1. If the patient never received the vaccination, the risk of suffering from rabies will be reduced, but the bite wound should be kept cleaned and given 2 doses of vaccine (on days 0 and 2).
2. If you have never been immunized, then an injection of rabies vaccine is given at the time of being bitten by rabid animals, and on days 3, 7, 14, and 28. Pain and swelling at the injection site is usually mild. Rare serious allergic reactions, less than 1% who have a fever after vaccination.
3. Precautions are the most important is the handling of the bite wound as soon as possible. The bitten area cleaned with soap, puncture of the sprayed with soapy water. If the wound has been cleaned, the patients who had never been immunized with rabies vaccine is given an injection of rabies immunoglobulin, where half of the dose injected in the bite.
4. Before the discovery of treatment, death usually occurs within 3-10 days. Most patients died of airway obstruction (asfiksia), cramps, fatigue or total paralysis. Although deaths due to suspected rabies can not be avoided, but some patients survived. They were transferred to intensive care to watch for symptoms in the lungs, heart, and brain. Provision of rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin seemed effective when a patient when symptoms of rabies.
