Rabia

The rage is originated by a virus that affects all the animals of hot blood, including a the man. It is distributed everywhere, although some countries already have eradicated it: in America Uruguay, Barbados, Jamaica and several other islands of the Caribbean; in Asia Japan; several Scandinavian countries, in Europe Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal, but within the infected countries can have free areas.

The urban rage exists and the selvática, the urban one is observed in the great and medium cities. the dog is the main transmitter by mordeduras; the selvática rage is concentrated in our country, Argentina, in the northeast and his transmitting agent is a bat hematófago Desmodus call rotundus.

The disease in the dog: Two forms are distinguished, the quadriplegic furious rage and or the dumb one, according to predominant the nervous sintomatología.

In the furious one, the period of hard incubation of 10 days to 2 months or more. In the initial or prodrómica phase, the dogs show a change of conduct, hide in dark corners or show agitation, give intranquilos returns and the animal is frightened to the smaller stimulus.
After 2 0 3 days, the signs of excitation and agitation are accentuated in well-known form. The dog dangerously becomes aggressive, with tendency to bite objects, animals and to the man, even to his own owner; often one bites to itself, inflicting itself serious hurt.
The salivation is abundant, since the animal does not swallow the saliva, due to the paralysis of muscles of the swallowing, and is an alteration of the bark by the partial paralysis of the vocal cords, with a hoarse and prolonged howl.
The rabid dogs have propensity to leave their homes and to cross long distances, attacking objects, same types, other animals and the man. In the final stage of the disease, convulsions, muscular incordinación and paralyses of muscles of the trunk and extremities can be observed.

Carcteriza the dumb form by quadriplegic signs, whereas the phase of excitation is very short or sometimes, absent.
The paralysis begins by muscles of the head and neck, the animal has difficulty in the swallowing and, often, the owner thinks that he has a choked bone and tries to extract exposing itself it to the infeccción, soon he follows the paralysis and death general.

The disease in the cat: The more of the times disease is of the furious type, with sintomatología similar to the dogs. It happens through a period of excitation and soon it happens the paralysis of the later third and death.

Treatment for the disease does not exist and is mortal.

In the case of an animal that has attacked to a person having inflicted to him a wound, to make the diagnosis Pasteur must be observed during 10 (ten) days in the Institute, or by strict domiciliary isolation and low supervision and control of a professional new recruit in the Municipal Registry of Veterinary Professionals. In this last case the ?Certificates of Observation? will be used whose forms will be provided by the Professional Council of Veterinary Doctors, the professional will have to communicate in form immediate to the institute Pasteur (Av. Diaz Velez 4821, City of Buenos Aires - Argentina), the beginning and later evolution of the observation.

The prevention of the disease is made soon by means of antirabic vaccines of obligatory character as of the 6 months of age and with an annual revaccination.

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