Are Rabies Globally And Country Specific?

The ravenous disease of rabies is present in all countries except Antarctica (“10 Facts on Rabies”). By looking at what rabies is, how to treat it and who created the rabies vaccine, one can learn that the rabies virus is very interesting and frightening.

In the article, a study was conducted on how many people get vaccinated for rabies prior to traveling. The study was directed to scientist and other public health professionals; with an interest on rabies vaccinations for those traveling for multiple reasons as well as days. While the article discussed reasons why one should get vaccinated such as vaccine’s cost and availability, lack of sufficient time to complete a vaccination series, and traveler misconceptions. The authors did not discuss the deadly disease and how it affects a person.

Common side effects from vaccines can range from redness or swelling of the skin where the shot was administered, to severe allergic reactions. For most patients, these side effects are very minor, and go away within a couple of days (“Possible Side-effects”, 2015). All of these common side effects seem to fail in comparison to what symptoms a person may experience if they were infected with the disease these vaccines are protecting them against. For example, in the state of California during 2010, there were 9,120 cases of the whooping cough recorded. That year had the most recorded cases since 1940, when the vaccine against the whooping cough was introduced. In connection to this outbreak, ten infants, who were too young to be vaccinated against the whooping cough, died. It is disheartening to hear more and more of these types of stories when we already have a solution to the problem (“Vaccine Myths Debunked”, n.d.). We are likely to see more of these tragedies as the rates for vaccinations decrease. And we are likely to see many diseases that were once a rarity, make a comeback in our communities.

One of my sources is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is the national health institution of the United States. It is a federal agency which is under the Department of Health and Human Services and its headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia. The goals of this institution is to protect the public from diseases by means of research, prevention, and vaccinations. It was written on April 22, 2011. I accessed this source on September 21, 2016. The information content is great and it contains is the generalization of rabies and its diagnosis.

According the CDC (2015), Primary prevention for Rabies is the RabAvert and IMOVAX vaccine. These vaccines are avaliable for pre-exposure and post-exposure. Secondary prevention includes washing the wound with soap and water. The injection of rabies immune globulin (RIG) into the wound is also needed (CDC, 2015). Tertiary preventions include adequate disease management and possibly support groups.

I choose to talk about the Rabies Vaccine. This vaccine hits close to home. Recently we received a cute black lab mixed 5-week old puppy. Now we all know in general that puppies can be very hyper individuals, but our puppy was/is more so than other puppy’s or so it seemed.

Pets such as dogs and cats are required to get certain types of shots and vaccines to prevent them from getting illnesses and even prevent you as an owner from getting diseases that your pet can give to you without being vaccinated. Not only do vaccines help human life, but they also help other different species of animals from wide-spread epidemics. In the popular fiction movie I Am Legend not only are the humans infected with the disease, but so are the animals, and the animals are an even larger threat than the infected humans are.(Lawrence 2007) Almost every dog owned as a pet has received the rabies shot. The rabies shot is in fact a vaccine for animals that helps save not only the animal’s life, but human lives also. Vaccines have come a long a way and scientists are doing everything they can to keep moving forward and to create new immunities to save the human population and also the animal population from diseases and

You realize that vaccines help you stay healthy and help others survive deadly disease, such as polio. However, you never realize that adorable animals play a big part and contribute in everybody’s health. How? Well, without them,

Dogs have been a companion for humans throughout history. There are currently 161 breeds which are recognized by the American Kennel Club (AKC) registry (Why Purebred?, 2013). Add the total of mix breeds and the number of dogs the ASPCA rescues daily, and there are a countless number of dogs in the United States. Unfortunately, since dogs do not have the ability to speak, they use their mouths and paws to communicate. Dog bites happen. According to the ASPCA, there are approximately 4.7 million dog bites estimated every year (Dog Bites, 2013). Based on these estimates alone, dog bites raise public health and public safety issues in many cities across the country.

So, while keeping the situation under loose surveillance, governments fed their people a drug called Phalanx that was cleared to “work against rabies,” as they

This article discusses that in recent years, more and more people are starting to recover from the rabies virus. The article begins by telling a story of how a young mother brought her sick child into an emergency room in Bangalore, India. The child was diagnosed with rabies encephalitis. The child had been bitten by a stray dog a month prior and had not sought out medical care after the bite. The child died within two hours of admission into the hospital. Although rabies is fatal to many who conceive the virus, its 100% preventable by appropriate vaccines and post exposure prophylaxis (PEP). More then 20,000 people die every year in India, which accounts for almost a third of the total number of individuals who die from rabies every year.

In three months more than 3,500 people were exposed to the virus in the Brooklyn area. 58 were infected, including two pregnant women. All were confirmed as unvaccinated at the time of infection. The department of Health tried to stop the spread. 90% of people who are exposed to the virus and don’t have immunity get the disease. Another virus is the POLIO. Polio may cause paralysis and is easily preventable by the polio vaccine. In the 1950s tens of thousands of American children were paralyzed by polio, and thousands of them died. It was one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. In 1955 came an announcement that change history. Thanks to the injectable Salk vaccine and later the oral Sabin vaccine, polio rates plummeted by 99%. The disease largely vanished from the U.S. But the oral vaccine carried a risk. There was a small chance that the weakened virus within it could mutate and actually cause polio, a risk of around one in 2.4 million doses. By 1994, the only cases of polio in the U.S were those caused by the oral vaccine itself. In the year 2000, across the U.S, the oral vaccine was replaced by a safer, injectable version. Sometimes vaccines are blamed for causing harm when there’s no scientific

Measles (also known as rubeola or “red measles”) is an acute, febrile viral infection that was a very familiar childhood infection world-wide until the introduction of an attenuated live-virus vaccine in the 1960’s. Now it is rarely seen in the United States and the rest of the medically developed world, re-emerging usually only when and where there has been a lapse in routine immunization practices and the necessary high levels of vaccine coverage have dropped. On a global scale, prior to the measles vaccine, the effects of measles were devastating — millions died from measles each year in all parts of the world. However, global measles deaths are diminishing, decreased by 75% from an estimated 544,200 in 2000 to 145,700 in 2013 (Moss and Griffin, 2012; WHO, 2015 Feb).

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a prevalent zoonotic disease caused a tick-borne virus. Transmission of the CCHF virus to people can be either by contact with infected animals that are slaughtered or tick bites(WHO). Contamination of medical supplies, reuse of needles and improper sterilization techniques have also been attributed to the transmission of CCHF. Averagely, the fatality rate of this disease is about 30%, but the mortality rates are between 10% to 80% have been reported in numerous outbreaks.

Abstract: Rabies is a dangerous disease that affects both animals and humans. Rabies is caused by the lyssa virus and is almost 100% fatal. The majority of the people infected die from it but there have been a small number of miraculous cases where people have survived. One very special case took place in the life of Jeanna Giese because she recovered without the use of rabies vaccines. There are four FDA approved vaccines for public usage but they are not guaranteed to cure. Rabies affects many people around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations. It is a very serious disease and is preventable if treatment is received before any symptoms show up.