Throughout the course of a year, the viral disease that is responsible for making mammals go crazy kills thousands. The disease commonly goes by the name of “rabies” which is a neurological disease that prioritizes its attacks on the brain. Once in control, the disease creates various symptoms that lead to death. Rabies can be transmitted throughout mammals and humans through exposure to the diseased bacteria. This includes any wound that exposes the bloodstream which results in direct contact with the bacteria. The main cause of the deaths are due to the lack of treatment. Now, vaccines are given to prevent infection but, failure to obtain this vaccine places the mammal at a greater risk of death. Rabies is a neurological viral disease that …show more content…
In this category, the fatty membrane called the rhabdoviridae infects mammals vertebrates and attacks their central nervous system. Britannica states that “the virus propagates along nerve tissue from the wound to the brain and becomes established in the central nervous system” (1). Once the disease has taken over the central nervous system, the most common side effect of foaming at the mouth becomes present. In the saliva, the rhabdoviridae is available for transmission to any warm-blooded animal. The rhabdoviridae relies on the host to create and regulate heat so the bacteria can duplicate and spread. The “typical incubation period is three to eight weeks, but it can be as little as nine days or as long as several years in some rare cases” (American Humane 1). This means that the process in which the bacteria grows and spreads varies. There is not a specific time period in which the host of the disease knows they have rabies. However, the signs of the disease forming inside the host's body come out in symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that, “there may be discomfort or a prickling or itching sensation at the site of bite, progressing within days to symptoms of cerebral dysfunction, anxiety, confusion, agitation” (CDC What are the Signs and Symptoms of Rabies 1). These are all symptoms indicating that the host could have the rabies disease …show more content…
Once the disease activates the salivary glands, the saliva in the host becomes infected and ready to spread its bacteria. One of the most common ways the virus is transmitted is “through the bite and virus-containing saliva of an infected host. Though transmission has been rarely documented via other routes such as contamination of mucous membranes (i.e., eyes, nose, mouth), aerosol transmission, and corneal and organ transplantations” (CDC How is Rabies Transmitted 1).The rabies bacteria enters the bloodstream in the area in which the victim was infected. Slowly, the bacteria begins to infiltrate the victim's system and begins to attack the central nervous system. Once established, the rabies disease continues its production and attacks on the body. As said before, beginning signs include itching and prickling sensations at the point of infection. However, as the disease targets more of the body, the side effects become much more severe. These symptoms “may include insomnia, anxiety, confusion, slight or partial paralysis, excitation, hallucinations, agitation, hypersalivation (increase in saliva), difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia (fear of water). Death usually occurs within days of the onset of these symptoms” (CDC Rabies 1). As the CDC explains, when the rabies disease has progressed enough to destroy enough tissue, the host will die. Though, in order to prevent the
A bite can cause death within six hours, as well as respiratory arrest and paralysis.
As a survivor of a residential school, Theodore Fontaine withstood the ultimate extent of the human condition. In his book, Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools (Fontaine, 2010), Theodore narrates the horrific abusive exploitation he encountered at the residential school; his dark emotional plight for freedom; and his spiritual journey into light (Fontaine, 2010).
According to anthropologist dead men do tell tales. An elderly man is walking his dog. All of a sudden, the dog began sprinting down the block. When the man finally caught up with him, he found him digging in the dirt. The dog pulled out what looked like a bone. Upon further investigation, the elderly man realized his dog had discovered a skull, and an arm bone. In “What is Forensic Anthropology” by Richard U. Steinberg and “Identifying the Victim” by David Kohn they talk about the first few steps anthropologist take to identifying a victim and who they consult during a case.
Exposure to the virus is followed by an incubation period which people may not feel any sign of symptoms. The incubation period can range between 7 to 17 days. People are not contagious during this time period. After the incubation period, high fever, chills, severe headache and backache, and general malaise begin to develop. Your body temperature can reach up to 106 degrees Fahrenheit. After 2 to 4 days, a rash emerges first as small red spots on the tongue and in the mouth. The spots develop into sores which spread large amounts of the virus into the mouth and throat. The person becomes most contagious during this phase. Soon after, the smallpox rash appears on exposed portions of the body: the face, forearms, wrists, palms, lower legs, feet, and soles. Usually the rash spreads to all parts of the body within 24 hours.
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Even though there was no evidence of an bite. Reports say that around “one-fourth of rabies victims reportedly cannot remember being bitten,” and “ after an infection, the symptoms can take up to an year to appear.”(NYT Sept. 15, 1996 P. 8) And this is backed up even more by the description of the rabies virus as a “Swift and brutal killer.” and adding in the fact of “most patients die in a few days.” All of this can be taken as sufficient evidence to bring proof to this statement.
The duration of the infection can be divided into a number of stages from the incubation period to the resolution of scabs. After incubation, the first symptoms emerge such as malaise, high fever, muscle pains and sometimes vomiting. This is known as the prodrome phase which lasts 2 to 4 days. Smallpox is most contagious following the appearance of the rash, usually occurring around the 12th to 15th day. The first lesions appear on the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat and then rupture releasing large amounts of the virus into the saliva. Around the time the sores rupture in the mouth, a rash starts appearing on the rest of the body, particularly on the face, arms and legs. The last lesions appear 24 to 36 hours after the onset and no further sores appear. By around the 3rd or 4th day of the rash, the sores expand and are filled with a pus-like fluid. This stage lasts roughly a week, during which the lesions start leaking fluid, deflating and scabbing over. By around day 16-20, all the sores will have scabbed over and will start falling off leaving slight indented scars. It will take around 6 days for all the scabs to fall off, which then makes the person no longer contagious. (CDC Emergency Risk Communication
Rabies is extremely dangerous, and it can be fatal if it's left untreated. The first stage of rabies is the incubation period. It is the time it takes for symptoms to develop after a person is infected which is usually two to twelve weeks, in other cases, it can be as short as four days but it is uncommon for the incubation period to last for more than a year.
During this period this newly infected animal does not show symptoms. This said period is called the incubation period. The rabies virus has a variable of incubation period running from 30 days to 18 months. When the virus eventually reaches the brain it begins to multiply creating an inflammation and then starts the first sign of rabies. Which is later moved to the salivary glands. Studies have shown that ferrets, dogs and cat can be excrete this virus in its saliva couple days before the disease is obvious. The excretion of this virus before and after the beginning of clinical signs varies because different factors which include the site of exposure, immunity in the bitten animal and the type of rabies affect
A rare, but extremely fatal, disease, rabies can be prevented by avoiding wild animals and getting your pet vaccinated. Symptoms in pets include foaming of the mouth, staggering and behavioral changes. Humans who have been bitten by a rabid animal may experience itching by the bite, anxiety, confusion and hallucinations. If your pet has symptoms, call animal control and stay away from them, because the disease is transmitted through saliva.
Rabies deaths most occur in Asia and Africa. Roughly 97% of human rabies cases result from dog bites. There are 10 viruses in the rabies serogroup, most of them only rarely cause human disease. It is well known Pasteur developed a vaccine that successfully prevented rabies in the 19th century. A person or animal can become a victim of rabies in many ways; bites, non-bites exposure, human to human transmission [2]. Rabies affects the brain and spinal cord and symptoms are like; flu, fever, headache, but infection can progress quickly to hallucination, paralysis, and eventually death [3]. The primary cause of death is usually respiratory insufficiency [9]. Depending on the location, severity of the inoculating wound and the amount of virus introduced, the incubation period
This disease can be contracted from a scratch or bite from a kitten or cat. The organism is transferred from the saliva of the cat or from under the cat’s claws. Cats contract this disease from an infected flea but it doesn't harm them at all, but it does infect humans. Then, within 3 to 10 days the symptoms
For the first few days the rabies virus starts out like flu symptoms with fevers, headaches and the person feels weak. Around the bitten area there may be itching and red, the person well get confused, agitated. The person has a hard time sleeping, have hallucinations, convulsions, loss of motor skills, and a fear of water (hydrophobia). The virus travels through the body from the location of the bite. “The time between the bite and the appearance of symptoms is called the incubation period and it may last for weeks to months. A bite by the animal during the incubation period does not carry a risk of rabies because the virus has not yet made it to the saliva” (Rabies, 2011). There are treatments for rabies if it is caught soon
Rabies is a highly infectious viral disease that can easily ruin and eventually end the lives of both humans and animals alike. Rabies comes in two forms for animals. It comes in the form of paralytic rabies, which is the kind that puts you in paralysis right from the beginning, skipping the symptoms of agitation and excitability. Rabies also appears in the form of furious rabies, which is completely different in the way that it makes the victim restless, vicious and agitated. When humans get rabies, their symptoms start out with simple headaches and fevers and later progresses to terrible things such as becoming hydrophobic because of painful throat spasms and paralysis. A definite diagnosis of rabies needs lab analysis of
Because rabies is transmitted through saliva, the disease is usually brought about into the body by a bite of an animal already infected with the lyssa virus (rabies). Rabies then deposits itself into the tissue of the host (person/animal who has the virus in them), infecting the host and later multiplying. From there, the virus travels from the nerves to the muscles, then to the brain and spinal cord (Easmon paragraphs 8-9). At this point, the virus is multiplying rapidly and soon the brain is extremely affected, which causes it to malfunction and the part of the brain that controls breathing shuts down (Buncombe paragraph 8).