Rabies is a deadly viral infection that attacks the central nervous system.
What are the causes of rabies?
For a person to get infected by rabies, he or she must have contact with a rabid animal. The rabid animal transmits the virus into its human host through a bite or scratch or exposure to its saliva. A person can be infected with rabies without being bitten. If the rabid animals saliva makes contact with eyes, mouth or nose, or an open wound, the virus can enter its human host. Once the virus enters your body, it attacks the brain and central nervous system, then into a patients vital organs.
According to Kitchener and Waterloo Wildlife Control experts, infected animals such as raccoons, bats, and dogs are carriers of the deadly rabies virus. Once you notice that these animals are rabid, get away as quickly as possible to avoid contact with them.
What are the symptoms of rabies?
Humans and infected animals exhibit different symptoms once they are infected with rabies.
Symptoms of an animal infected with rabies:
An animal infected with rabies appears sick, crazy, or vicious. But there are animals that appear normal or docile. Kitchener Wildlife Control experts advise that you take rabies shots once an animal bites you or you are exposed to its saliva.
Animals infected with rabies may exhibit unusual behavior such as bats and foxes appearing in the middle of the day or a wild animal that is usually shy appearing friendly and docile.
Symptoms of a person infected with rabies:
The incubation period of rabies is normally 30 to 60 days, but the symptoms of the virus can surface in less than 10 days or several years.
Most patients infected with rabies develop symptoms of itching, pain, or tingling from the point of entry of the virus or the bite site.
Patients also have non-specific complaints of fevers, chills, and muscle aches combined with irritability. These symptoms may seem like any other virus, but the difference is the tingling or painful sensation from the virus point of entry.
Once the initial symptoms have surfaced, patients will gradually become extremely ill and will have other symptoms such as high fever, seizures, agitation, and may even go into a coma.
Infected patients also develop irregular spasms and contractions of breathing muscles whenever exposed to water or a puff of air.
How can rabies be treated?
Rabies is a deadly disease but death can be prevented if immediate action is taken. Once a person has been bitten by an animal, visit a medical expert immediately. Have the animal observed by Waterloo/Kitchener wildlife control experts or a veterinarian. If the animal displays any symptoms of rabies, the bitten person must undergo treatment immediately. Even if the animal has yet to display signs of rabies, it is best to have the wound cleaned immediately and take rabies shots as a precautionary measure.
What are the causes of rabies?
For a person to get infected by rabies, he or she must have contact with a rabid animal. The rabid animal transmits the virus into its human host through a bite or scratch or exposure to its saliva. A person can be infected with rabies without being bitten. If the rabid animals saliva makes contact with eyes, mouth or nose, or an open wound, the virus can enter its human host. Once the virus enters your body, it attacks the brain and central nervous system, then into a patients vital organs.
According to Kitchener and Waterloo Wildlife Control experts, infected animals such as raccoons, bats, and dogs are carriers of the deadly rabies virus. Once you notice that these animals are rabid, get away as quickly as possible to avoid contact with them.
What are the symptoms of rabies?
Humans and infected animals exhibit different symptoms once they are infected with rabies.
Symptoms of an animal infected with rabies:
An animal infected with rabies appears sick, crazy, or vicious. But there are animals that appear normal or docile. Kitchener Wildlife Control experts advise that you take rabies shots once an animal bites you or you are exposed to its saliva.
Animals infected with rabies may exhibit unusual behavior such as bats and foxes appearing in the middle of the day or a wild animal that is usually shy appearing friendly and docile.
Symptoms of a person infected with rabies:
The incubation period of rabies is normally 30 to 60 days, but the symptoms of the virus can surface in less than 10 days or several years.
Most patients infected with rabies develop symptoms of itching, pain, or tingling from the point of entry of the virus or the bite site.
Patients also have non-specific complaints of fevers, chills, and muscle aches combined with irritability. These symptoms may seem like any other virus, but the difference is the tingling or painful sensation from the virus point of entry.
Once the initial symptoms have surfaced, patients will gradually become extremely ill and will have other symptoms such as high fever, seizures, agitation, and may even go into a coma.
Infected patients also develop irregular spasms and contractions of breathing muscles whenever exposed to water or a puff of air.
How can rabies be treated?
Rabies is a deadly disease but death can be prevented if immediate action is taken. Once a person has been bitten by an animal, visit a medical expert immediately. Have the animal observed by Waterloo/Kitchener wildlife control experts or a veterinarian. If the animal displays any symptoms of rabies, the bitten person must undergo treatment immediately. Even if the animal has yet to display signs of rabies, it is best to have the wound cleaned immediately and take rabies shots as a precautionary measure.