Hebi, Henan, a man was bitten by a yellow dog on the way to pick up his child from school. When he went to the hospital for vaccination, he found that there were long queues in front of the door. After a conversation, he learned that everyone was bitten by the same stray dog.
This stray dog is of medium size, with yellow hair, and has no owner around him. It is suspected to be a stray dog. The people bitten by this stray dog were walking, walking, picking up their children from school, and not provoking them. Unexpectedly, the stray dog suddenly jumped out and bit it all the way without letting anyone go.
The man said that he had just made a rough count and there were more than 40 people queuing up to get rabies vaccine at the door. It is not ruled out that more injured people or that some people did not come.
At present, this stray dog has been caught. Whether it has rabies needs further testing.
Rabies
Under normal circumstances, stray dogs who are straying outside rarely take the initiative to hurt people because they have adapted to the existence of humans and may even be harmed.
Occasionally, stray dogs can injure people, but the case of biting more than 40 people in one go is so rare that people wonder if the dog is suffering from rabies disease.
Rabies is a zoonotic disease. The natural host is bat . Bats are mammals, but their body structure is relatively special. Viruses can infect them, but they cannot replicate themselves in large quantities. Therefore, bats will not get sick, but they will carry viruses.
Most bats like to live in groups. Thousands of bats gather together will also cause multiple pathogens to spread to each other in the bat family. Sometimes a bat may carry hundreds of pathogens.
During the wild activity, bats can spread pathogens through bites, food, feces, etc. Among them, rabies disease can also spread through bat activities. Wild animals may become infected after contacting bat pathogens.
There are also a small number of people who are directly exposed to bats and get sick: for example: scratched or bitten by bats, or the bat's saliva touches tiny wounds on their bodies, causing the spread of the disease.
Dogs are one of the intermediate hosts of rabies. After they come into contact with bats carrying pathogens, they will be infected with rabies. rabies virus replicates itself in the dog's body, causing the dog to get sick.
Dogs suffering from rabies will change their past gentleness and start to hurt people and dogs. Sometimes they can even lick their wounds and cause the other party to suffer from rabies.
At the end of 2018, a 9-year-old boy was licked by a dog while playing with his dog, but the boy did not tell his parents that he missed the best intervention period.
months later, the boy gradually developed signs such as fear of light, wind, and water, and was diagnosed with rabies, and eventually died of ineffective treatment.
In 2016, a 67-year-old man was bitten by his dog and did not care. He simply washed the wound with soapy water and did not seek medical treatment in time for rabies vaccine. As a result, he died of rabies attacks and rabies attacks three months later.
is actually not just a dog that is the intermediate host of rabies. Cats, foxes, wolves, jackals, bears, skunks, etc. are all intermediate hosts of rabies. If they are bitten, they must also be injected with rabies vaccine in time.
Blockade of rabies
Once rabies attack, the mortality rate is 100%, but rabies is not helpless, but the focus is on prevention.
In fact, many people will go to the hospital for rabies vaccine as soon as possible after being bitten by dogs. But in fact, there are better preventive measures, that is: inject dogs with rabies vaccine.
Many big cities provide dogs with rabies vaccine for free. In Shanghai, where I live, the community organizes free rabies vaccine injections every year. Only dogs who have been injected with rabies vaccine will be issued with dog certificate .
The effect of injecting rabies vaccine into dogs can be said to be twice the result with half the effort. On the one hand, it is because dogs are an important intermediate host of rabies. If 70% of dogs in a region are injected with rabies vaccine, it can effectively block the spread of rabies. does not have the spread of rabies virus, and even if a dog hurts people, it will not cause death.
On the other hand, it is cheap to inject rabies vaccine to dogs, and the vaccines to inject people are expensive, and the vaccines to be injected after being bitten are not effective.
In addition, the governance of stray dogs in major cities is relatively rough. Many cities have not counted the number of stray dogs and regularly sterilized stray dogs. There is no restraint on the owner's behavior of abandoning his pets, resulting in the crackdown on stray dogs and new stray dogs appearing, which is not very effective.
restrains pets, injecting rabies vaccine into pets is the key to ensuring that rabies disease no longer appears. In addition, if you are bitten by a dog or lick your wound, you should also get vaccinated in time. Although the earlier the vaccine is, the better, as long as the disease has not yet occurred, you can get vaccinated. Don’t think that it will not take it seriously after a long time.
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