rabies have been a major problem in China.
With the development of medical technology, many of the suspected diseases have been addressed and even the varnished cancers are gradually becoming chronic diseases, yet rabies are still prevalent in the country.
According to data disclosed by the National Agency for Disease Prevention and Control, in January and September 2020 there were 152 rabies in the country and 114 deaths, thus making it clear that we still have a long way to go to completely eliminate rabies.
I. How terrible is rabies? Death rate up to 100%.
The chief of emergency services at the People's Hospital of Beijing University, Wang Jilin, said: The rabies virus is a psychovirus that, after being scratched or bitten by an animal carrying the rabies virus, the virus will remain in the wound for about a week, then bind to the nerve of the body, and follow the nerve straight to the centre of the body, replicating it in large quantities, then moving forward, reaching the brain, leading to the destruction of the brain's blood-brain barrier, then spreading along the nerve of the brain to the whole body.
The rabies virus has a shorter onset cycle, usually of about seven days, some of which are in the range of one to three months, with a maximum of eight years. More critically, rabies have a very high mortality rate of about 100 per cent.
There have been videos on the Internet that say that when a rabies outbreak occurs, they walk and bark, which is a rumor.
In practice, rabies virus is divided into insulation periods and pre-exposure periods, which are like normal human beings, without any apparent symptoms. At the front stage, the same symptoms as colds, such as dizziness, headaches, nausea, low fever, lack of strength, etc., are more easily overlooked. In addition, the rabies suffer from pain when a rabies disease occurs, if the wound occurs after the scratch or bite. The rabies can be exciting, as they keep talking or spit everywhere.
Two, the rabies are gone?
After an accident when a 32-year-old dragon had been bitten by a dog and thought that he had been vaccinated against rabies, it was not surprising that after about half a month, the dragon had suddenly experienced symptoms of discomfort, as manifested by sterilisation in his left leg, acidic vertebrates, and a high rate of urine. The aftereffects of the dog bite were not expected at that time, and it was not effective for the dragon to have been registered and taken medication. After that, it was not helpful for Ryu to go to the clinic on his own, but the symptoms were getting worse and he couldn't even walk.
Finally, Ryuichi was hospitalized again, after expert consultations, and a preliminary diagnosis was rabies. Despite the urgent rescue of the expert, the illness was too long, and the hospital admission of a dragon continued to increase, and he was unconscious and quickly died of respiratory failure.
Many people have this misunderstanding: “A vaccine is fine”, which is not true.
According to Lee Yanping, Director of the Infection II Section of the 8th Hospital in Xian City, while dragons were vaccinated against rabies in a timely manner, there were two possible incidents: the bite of the dragon could be wild or mad dogs, the rabies virus was very high, the disease was rapid, the virus had spread before rabies had been administered; and the other possibility was that it would take a certain amount of time to produce the antibodies after the vaccine had been injected, and the virus spread before the antibodies were produced.
So, "vaccination is fine" is a big misunderstanding about rabies. For people with low levels of immunity in particular, even if rabies are injected in a timely manner, the vaccine takes time to form an antibodies in the body. If the virus spreads along the nerves before the antibodies are formed, it is too late.
32-year-old man died of rabies: he was bitten by a dog six months ago and thought he'd been vaccinated.
III. Eradicating rabies.
Over the past two years, dog management has been strengthened throughout the country, and a number of dog-keeping practices have been regulated, to some extent in favour of rabies prevention.
According to data published by the National Agency for Disease Prevention and Control, the number of rabies in the country in January-September 2020 was significantly reduced, to 152 cases and 114 deaths, compared to 2019. However, my country is far from doing enough compared to countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan and Malaysia, which have already eradicated rabies.
It has been pointed out that our rabies vaccine is the world's first-ever vaccine use, and the disease has the second lowest impact in the world, fundamentally because of “heavy dogs”. The real response should focus on animals rather than on humans. The risk of human infection by rabies is reduced only when animal vaccination is in place.
The World Association for the Protection of Animals released Focus Dogs only — Solutions to Eliminate rabies by 2030, which states that rabies can be effectively prevented only if more than 70 per cent of dogs are immunized. Overall, it is clear that rabies vaccination coverage in our country is well below 70 per cent, with immunization coverage exceeding 70 per cent in only isolated areas.
In conclusion, we would like to remind you that when animals are scratched or bitten, rabies are avoided, and at a critical time we do so:
1. Continuous washing of wounds with liquid water, then cleaning of wounds with soap or other weak alkaline cleaners for about 15 minutes, and immediate treatment in hospital if the wounds are larger and the bleeding is higher.
2. The sooner rabies are administered to the hospital, the better, and if the wound is severe, the anti-rabies virus will need to be shot in addition to the vaccine.
It is also important to note, of course, that rabies are not contracted only by cat and dog scratches and bites, but also by animals such as foxes, weaves, bats and livestock, even if they are scratched or bitten, and given rabies to avoid infection and endanger life.
32-year-old man died of rabies: he was bitten by a dog six months ago and thought he'd been vaccinated.
However, the first thing to do to eradicate the rabies virus is to keep pets in line, regularly inoculate pets with rabies, out-of-country ropes, mouth covers, etc. to avoid scratching and biting.