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Rabies - an acute infectious disease of humans and animals, characterized by damage to the central nervous system.

Infection with rabies comes from sick animals - dogs, foxes and wolves. For humans, the most dangerous dogs are those that get rabies more often than other animals (up to 80% of all registered cases).

In dogs, the signs of rabies are restless behavior, a tendency to attack people, depression, the appearance of paralysis, and rabies. The bite of a sick animal can cause human infection even before the animal shows signs of rabies. Therefore, any bite should be considered suspicious for rabies. Not every bite by a rabid animal leads to human infection. It depends on the number of bites, their location (on open parts of the body or through clothing), the amount of virus introduced during the bite. The most dangerous bites are on the head and hands.

An animal suspected of having rabies must be isolated and kept under observation. When destroyed, his head should be sent for research to a veterinary clinic.

First aid. A bitten person should be given urgent medical care: the bite site is burned (with hot iron, iodine) for the possible destruction of the virus, a bandage is applied to it, and then sent to a medical facility for vaccination. Vaccinations must be given for any bite of a person by an animal, even if the bite is made through clothing.

Authors: Aizman R.I., Krivoshchekov S.G.

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