DEFINITIONS
Rabies is a viral infection of the brain that causes irritation and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
CAUSE
The rabies virus (Lysa virus).
The rabies virus is found in the saliva of infected animals. This memularkan animal infections to other animals or humans through the bite and sometimes through a lick. The virus will move from its entry through the nerves to the spinal cord and brain, where they multiply. Furthermore the virus will move back through the nerves to the salivary glands and into the saliva.
Many animals can transmit rabies to humans. Most often a source of rabies are dogs, other animals can also be a source of rabies infection is a cat, bats, raccoons, skunks, foxes.
Rabies in dogs is often found in Latin America, Africa and Asia, because not all pets get a vaccination for this disease. Infected animals can have rabies or rabies tame wild.
In the wild rabies, an infected animal was restless and violent, then became paralyzed and died. In rabies benign, since the beginning has been a local paralysis or total paralysis.
Although very, very rare, rabies can be transmitted through inhalation of contaminated air. 2 cases have been reported to occur in the air explorers in cave where many bats.
SYMPTOMS
Symptoms usually begin to occur within 30-50 days after infection, but the incubation period varies from 10 days to more than 1 year.
The incubation period is usually the shortest on the person who was bitten on the head or a closed place of shorts or when the bite is in many places.
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