It is generally believed that rabies are likely to be contracted by animal bites. However, a tea farmer in Shandong, China, who was teasing a stray dog at his feet a day ago, was suspected of suffering from rabies after being licked by a dog because of a wound on his hand, after which he became sick 50 days later.
The Ziru evening newspaper quoted Zhang Wanqing, Chief of the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Section, Surveillance and Control Centre, Shandong Province, as saying that when animals such as dogs, cats and others who may be carrying rabies are bitten, scratched, or slime, unhealed wounds are licked by animals, they are considered to be exposed to rabies and should be disposed of after exposure.
Fan Tianli, Director of Infection Section, Qingdao Sixth People ' s Hospital, Shandong Province, Mainland China, stated that a 50-year-old tea farmer, alias, had recently gone to his feet when he was picking tea. The dog at the bottom of his foot, when he reached his tongue and licked his hand, did not bite the wound.
The old hu doesn't care. He's just messing with the dog. He's not vaccinated. However, some 50 days later, old Hu experienced water scare and manic symptoms and was taken by ambulance to Qingdao City's Sixth People's Hospital.
Fan Tianli indicated that the patient was very seriously suffering from water scare, and was afraid of seeing water and afraid to drink or eat. A few days after the disease, Hu died.
Once a rabies disease occurs, it progresses very quickly, usually for a period of less than 10 days, with a mortality rate of up to 100 per cent.