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    Rabies is a viral infection spread through the saliva of infected animals, most commonly dogs. The rabies virus travels through the nervous system and eventually reaches the brain. There are two forms of rabies in humans - furious rabies causes symptoms like anxiety, muscle spasms and fear of water while dumb rabies leads to paralysis. Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal. Treatment involves promptly washing any bites and administering vaccines or immunoglobulin, which can prevent the disease if given early. Avoiding contact with wild animals can greatly reduce the risk of rabies.

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    Rabies is a viral infection spread through the saliva of infected animals, most commonly dogs. The rabies virus travels through the nervous system and eventually reaches the brain. There are two forms of rabies in humans - furious rabies causes symptoms like anxiety, muscle spasms and fear of water while dumb rabies leads to paralysis. Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal. Treatment involves promptly washing any bites and administering vaccines or immunoglobulin, which can prevent the disease if given early. Avoiding contact with wild animals can greatly reduce the risk of rabies.

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    Rabies is a viral infection spread through the saliva of infected animals, most commonly dogs. The rabies virus travels through the nervous system and eventually reaches the brain. There are two forms of rabies in humans - furious rabies causes symptoms like anxiety, muscle spasms and fear of water while dumb rabies leads to paralysis. Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal. Treatment involves promptly washing any bites and administering vaccines or immunoglobulin, which can prevent the disease if given early. Avoiding contact with wild animals can greatly reduce the risk of rabies.

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    Rabies is a viral infection spread through the saliva of infected animals, most commonly dogs. The rabies virus travels through the nervous system and eventually reaches the brain. There are two forms of rabies in humans - furious rabies causes symptoms like anxiety, muscle spasms and fear of water while dumb rabies leads to paralysis. Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal. Treatment involves promptly washing any bites and administering vaccines or immunoglobulin, which can prevent the disease if given early. Avoiding contact with wild animals can greatly reduce the risk of rabies.

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    FRIAS, SID ARTEMIS B.

    BSN3A

    Rabies is an infectious disease of animals which is a member of a group of viruses


    constituting the family Rhabdoviridae. The virus particle is covered in a fatty membrane, is
    bullet-shaped, 70 by 180 nanometres and contains a single helical strand of ribonucleic acid
    (RNA). Although rabies is usually spread among domestic dogs and wild carnivorous animals,
    all warm-blooded animals are susceptible to infection. The virus is often present in the salivary
    glands of infected animals, referred to as rabid, and is excreted in the saliva. The bite of the
    infected animal easily introduces the virus into a fresh wound. In humans, rabies is not usually
    spread from man to man, rather the majority of infections occur from rabid dogs. After a person
    has been inoculated, the virus enters small nerve ends around the site of the bite, and slowly
    travels up the nerve to reach the central nervous system (CNS) where it reproduces itself, and
    will then travel down nerves to the salivary glands and replicate further. The time it takes to do
    this depends on the length of the nerve it must travel - a bite on the foot will have a much
    lengthier incubation period than a facial bite would. This period may last from two weeks to six
    months, and often the original wound will have healed and been forgotten by the time symptoms
    begin to occur.
    Symptoms in humans present themselves in one of two forms: "furious rabies', or " dumb
    rabies'. The former is called such because of the severe nature and range of the symptoms. The
    virus, upon reaching the CNS will present the person with headache, fever, irritability,
    restlessness and anxiety. Progression may occur on to muscle pains, excessive salivation, and
    vomiting. After a few days or up to a week the person may go through a stage of excitement, and
    be afflicted with painful muscle spasms which are sometimes set off by swallowing of saliva or
    water. Because of this the afflicted will drool and learn to fear water, which is why rabies in
    humans was sometimes called Hydrophobia. The patients are also extremely sensitive to air or
    drafts blown on their face. The stage lasts only fews days before the onset of a coma, then death.
    Dumb rabies begins similarly to furious rabies, but instead of symptoms progressing to
    excitement, a steady retreat and quiet downhill state occurs. This may be accompanied with
    paralysis before death. Rabies diagnosis in this type of cases can be missed. Unfortunately with
    both furi ous and dumb rabies, once the disease has taken hold clinically, rapid and relentless
    progression to invariable death occurs despite all known treatments. Treatment for the recently
    infected would include washing the wound with soap, detergent, and water. Then an anti-rabies
    serum can be administered to humans. Alternative to the serum, an effective and intensive
    treatment after infection can be obtained through the use of a killed virus vaccine, because of the
    unusually long incubation period. The vaccine, a Human Diploid Cell Vaccine (HDCV) is grown
    in human fibroblasts (the principal nonmotile cells of connective tissue) and is quite safe for
    human use. When used, the vaccine did dramatically cut the rabies death toll. Previous killed

    virus vaccines, which had been made from infected neural tissue, were not completely effective
    at immunisation and had caused adverse side effects.
    Since contact with wild animals is the main source of infection for humans and their pets,
    avoidance of any direct contact with these animals reduces the risk of being bitten quite
    dramatically. Raccoons that are wandering in the daylight hours, or any animal that seems
    "friendly' should be avoided as well. Other high-risk animals include skunks, foxes, jackals,
    wolves, as well as an odd association with bats.

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