Rabies | |
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A dug wi rabies in the paralytic (post-furious) stage | |
Specialty | Infectious disease |
Symptoms | Fiver, fear o watter, confusion, coma[1] |
Causes | Rabies virus an Australie bat lyssavirus[2] |
Prevention | Rabies vaccine, ainimal control, rabies immunoglobulin[1] |
Prognosis | Nearly ayeweys daith[1] |
Daiths | 17,400 (2015)[3] |
Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute inflammation o the brain in humans an ither wairm-bluidit ainimals.[1] Early seemptoms can include fever an tinglin at the steid o exposur.[1] These seemptoms are follaed bi ane or mair o the follaein symptoms: violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, fear o watter, an inability tae move pairts o the body, confusion, an loss o consciousness.[1] Ance seemptoms appear it nearly always results in daith.[1] The time period atween contractin the disease an the stairt o srrmptoms is uisually ane tae three month; however, this time period can vary frae less nor ane week tae mair nor ane year.[1] The time is dependent on the distance the virus must travel tae reach the central nervous seestem.[4]