What is the need for rabies vaccine
November 08, 2022
1. First of all, the most common case is dog and cat bites. Rabies cannot be inherited or transmitted from mother to child [1]. Only cats and dogs that have been bitten by other mad animals can carry rabies. The incubation period of cats and dogs after infection is limited to half a year, and they will die soon after the onset. Therefore, if it is determined that cats and dogs have not been bitten by other crazy animals within half a year, the risk of infection is directly ruled out. (The risk of infection can also be ruled out directly for suckling cats and suckling dogs less than one month old, because if such a small animal is bitten by other crazy animals, it will hang up directly and cannot survive to bite people. The risk of infection can also be ruled out directly for kittens and puppies less than half a year old who have entered the house about one month ago and have not been bitten by mad dogs, unless they live near the jungle mountains and suspect that they have survived by small wild mammals after being bitten by them.) . These are all cases where you don't need to inject directly. In order to avoid memory errors, you can observe for ten days.
The cats and dogs have been vaccinated with rabies vaccine twice or more on time (the latest rabies vaccine has been vaccinated within the past year), which can also be regarded as eliminating the possibility of carrying the virus. When being bitten, the cats and dogs can be observed for ten days without injection! If you have only been vaccinated once, although the possibility of carrying the virus is greatly reduced, it is not completely safe.
2. If any of the above exclusion conditions cannot be met, the dog or cat bites the dog, Ten day observation method (The incubation period of cats and dogs is not infectious. The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus. The incubation period is only in the nerve and does not enter saliva. Only after the virus enters the central nervous system along the nerve and multiplies in large numbers, the animal will get sick. The virus will only enter saliva from the brain, which is similar to the reason that a car must pass through a toll station before getting off the highway. However, this kind of animal that has already suffered from the disease has a maximum of 10 days from onset to death or near death.) . Note that the ten day observation method is not to let people observe for ten days without injection (because the symptoms at the initial stage of the disease are not obvious, cats and dogs can't talk, and there is no way to tell people that they are uncomfortable. If it is a bite near the head and neck, and it is serious, in case it is too late to wait for the cats and dogs to die for a few days before going for injection), but to observe while injecting. After 10 days, the animals involved in the accident are still healthy, so the risk of infection is definitely ruled out, Stop the remaining two shots. (In cities and urban areas of provinces without epidemic areas and with clear origins, domestic animals that cause accidents bite. If the mental behavior is completely normal when the accident occurs and the part far from the brain is slightly scratched, it can be considered to directly observe without injection, but if the animal is abnormal, it should be immediately re injected.)