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If the animal is not within the infectious period, you cannot be infected through bites (scratches). Healthy animals do not spread rabies.
1. Do all cats and dogs have rabies?
Of course not, dogs/cats will not be born with rabies virus, nor can mothers and babies inherit rabies: in fact, for your dog or cat to get rabies, it must meet one condition, that is, it must be contagious ( Only when the saliva or nerve tissue of a virus-carrying dog (or other crazy animal) effectively comes into contact with a wound or mucous membrane, will there be a chance of being infected with rabies. (Experiments and actual facts show that most rabies can only be transmitted by being bitten by a crazy animal. It is said that there is a chance that the person will be infected because he does not come into contact with the virus)
2. Yes Doesn’t it mean that as long as dogs and cats don’t have rabies, everything will be fine?
It is indeed okay. Of course, healthy dogs are not contagious. Dogs can only carry the virus in their saliva during the onset of illness (a few dogs may also contain the virus in their saliva 2-5 days before onset of illness at the end of the incubation period), but you can use the WHO 10-day observation method to confirm, that is, if they bite you If the dog does not develop rabies within 10 days after biting you, there is no possibility of you being infected with rabies.
3. How is it usually transmitted? Saliva or blood?
Contact transmission. For rabies infection, the virus cannot pass through intact skin. Effective contact means that the saliva of an animal in the rabies stage comes into contact with a wound or mucous membrane. Generally, it is a bite or saliva. Contaminated wounds or mucous membranes such as scratches.
Due to the unique mechanism of rabies, it only appears in saliva and nerve tissue and is not spread through blood. Touching, contact with feces, and indirect contact are not contagious.
4. If a dog or cat is vaccinated every year, will the dog, cat and owner get rabies?
If your animal is vaccinated and within the protection period, there is a high chance that your cat or dog will not be infected with rabies even if it is bitten by a mad dog. (The high probability is because a very small number of dogs are not immune.)
If your dog has been vaccinated against rabies for two consecutive years or more and is still within the rabies protection period when it bites you, If a cat or dog bites you without any abnormal behavior, you can observe it for 10 days before deciding whether to vaccinate against rabies. If the dog shows symptoms within 10 days, get the vaccine immediately. If the dog has no symptoms after 10 days, , the cat is still healthy, you can rest assured that you have no chance of being infected.
5. According to research, the incubation period of rabies in dogs and cats is 2 weeks to 6 months. Therefore, even in the most strict rabies-free country, even if your puppy or cat comes from a rabies-infected area, you only need to isolate it for 6 months to observe whether it carries rabies virus. Within 6 months, if your animal has not developed rabies, animal epidemic prevention in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States will recognize that your dog does not carry rabies virus and can enter the country safely. (Similarly, if your dog has no contact with the outside world, has been kept in captivity, and it has been 6 months since it arrived at your home, then the risk of your dog carrying rabies virus has been eliminated).
6. If you keep animals, it is recommended that the animals be vaccinated. If you often come into contact with strange animals, it is recommended that you get three injections for pre-exposure prophylaxis. This way, if you are bitten, you will not be suspected of being bitten. If a rabies dog bites you, you can get 2 shots directly to get immunity.
7. Human rabies has an incubation period. According to detailed research by the World Health Organization, most of it is 20 days to February, and the longest period is 6 years, so you don’t have to worry if it exceeds 6 years.
The World Health Organization's webpage on rabies: /zushuxianyisheng
8. Professor Zu refutes the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat rabies during attacks: If you are unclear, you can check the infectious disease expert Professor Zu's article Blog to see how she boasted about a paper she published on treating rabies hypochondriasis in a medical journal and changed it into a "treatment of rabies" in a non-medical newspaper. I didn't check how other newspapers published it specifically. The only thing I know is the time in the Life Daily and the Health News) [/B] The address of Professor Zu’s comments is as follows: /s/blog_4de0699f01000bhw.html
——So far, there is no treatment by either traditional Chinese or Western medicine. The technology of good rabies is said to be curable, but no evidence can be produced. It is very low-level to clamor for a few people to be cured every day and conduct live experiments.
Because any drug must first go through ingredient research, experimental testing, toxicity testing, animal infection experiments, and clinical phases I, II, and III. . Some scammers do not understand basic common sense, or use the patent number they are applying for to deceive people who do not understand the drug testing process. There are many scammers who are trying to make a fool of themselves, so be careful!