According to experts, more and more families keep dogs, cats and other pets. Many people think that their dogs are healthy in appearance and will not carry rabies virus, so they are not vaccinated in time, which may easily lead to the hidden danger of rabies infection after being bitten. Rabies is an infectious disease that both humans and animals suffer from. Once it happens, there is no cure.
In the summer of 2007, in less than two weeks, the Second Hospital of Nanjing admitted three rabies patients who died of the disease. One common feature of them is that they were bitten by cats and dogs without rabies vaccine, which eventually led to tragedy.
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According to reports, from 2004 to 2006, the reported cases of rabies in China were 265 1, 2,537 and 3,279 respectively, and the reported death toll was 8,403, accounting for 30. 1% of the deaths of various infectious diseases in the same period, ranking first among the reported deaths of 37 legal infectious diseases. In 2007, more than 3,300 cases of rabies were reported nationwide, and the situation of epidemic prevention and control was very severe.
Experts remind that once people are bitten or scratched by animals such as cats and dogs, they should immediately wash them with soapy water and immediately send them to professional hospitals for thorough debridement and vaccination. Don't lose too much because of small things. Because once rabies is diagnosed, there is no effective treatment in the world.
People's Network-Sleep with dogs every day, and be alert to rabies.