Bites, Bats, and being safe - Department of Public Health
Bites, Bats, and being safe
...a quiz about RABIES
Dr. Emily Beeler, DVM
Los Angeles County Public Health Veterinary Public Health and Rabies Control
Overview
What is rabies? What animals transmit rabies? "The unapparent bat bite" Rabies exposure treatment Reporting bites Dog bite prevention
Quiz #1 - What is rabies?
A. A bacteria that eats flesh B. A virus that infects the brain C. A fungus that infects the toes
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Virus
What is rabies?
Transmitted in saliva, by bites
Contacts with blood, urine, feces of infected animal are NOT considered exposure.
Does not survive long outside of body
Causes brain inflammation in mammals
Fatal once symptomatic
Kills 55,000 people per year worldwide
Most infected after dogs bites in other countries
Kills 1-3 Americans per year ? often from bats
Many thousands of Americans exposed and treated.
Quiz #2 - What is the most common incubation period for rabies in people?
A. Twelve hours B. One or two days C. 4-12 weeks
Range = 10 days ? 7 years. Several cases in US have had 1-2 year
incubation periods.
Human Rabies
Symptoms
Numbness, tingling of bitten limb Headache, flu-like signs Problems swallowing, drooling Fear of wind and water Agitation, disorientation Slurring of words Tremors, seizures Coma Death
Rabies Symptoms - Animals
Furious rabies
Aggressive, attacking drooling, unafraid.
Dumb rabies
Weak, paralyzed, unafraid, drooling.
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Overview
What is rabies? What animals transmit rabies? "The unapparent bat bite" Rabies exposure treatment Reporting bites Dog bite prevention
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