Rabies, By Quy Phan

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

We conducted our research by searching our topic and its background information for general knowledge on the internet. We used a numerous amount of secondary sources off of the internet for our project. However, we did use some primary sources from books at our local library, as well as, other primary sources from personal

The library portal is the first website which I went through to get my sources. The databases I used were LexisNexis and Abscohost. The reasons

Where did you go for your research?What types of sources (newspapers, documents, interviews, etc.) did you use?

Today people the Rabies vaccine “uses antibodies to attack the Rhabdovirus acting directly upon pathogens without the help of a host’s immune system” (Daempfle, 2016). The Rabies vaccination today is primarily administered as a preventative measure to individuals who are at high risk for exposure to Rabies such as lab workers, veterinarians,

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

Louis Pasteur was a French scientist that discovered the rabies vaccine in 1885. He passed away ten years later. Pasteur’s work on rabies was inspired by a veterinarian named Pierre Galtier, who had showed that dog saliva could transmit rabies to rabbits in 1879. A year later, Pasteur decided to study rabies by infecting the rabbits directly into their brains. He observed the response of the animals through different studies and eventually came up with a treatment that protected dogs against the virus. One of the observations that led to this discovery was the long term exposure to air of infected spinal cords from rabbits, which appeared to be less infected by the virus after fifteen days.

Rabies is a harmful virus that compromises a person's neurological process and, consequently, makes their actions unpredictable.

Rabies had been known about since 2000 B.C. but technology was obviously not advanced enough to try and do anything about the spread of the virus. In the year 1885, France and Belgium had become plagued with more and more cases of the rabies that the fear had soon began to become a very reasonable fear for people to have. This gave Louis Pasteur ample reason to research more about the virus.

In the 16th century, an Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro discovered that rabies was a fatal disease affecting humans as well as animals, calling it "an incurable wound”. However, it was Louis Pasteur a French biologist that created the first vaccine in 1885 (Wnek, 2009). Rabies is transmitted through the saliva or through the tissue within the central nervous system that is transmitted by an infected mammal to another mammal. Once the mammal is infected either through a bite, scratch or by licking an open infected wound, the virus will begin to attack and destroy the neurological system. In addition other forms of transmission are when infected saliva comes in contact with the eyes, nose and mouth. Dogs are the cause of over 90 percent of human rabies infections. On another note raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes

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

Finding a scholarly source is going to a good sourced website such as in our case most people would have used the Utas’s Mega which brings up many different types of scholarly sources, but when looking for a non-scholarly sources many people go to google and do a normal web search.

al., 2014). The method used to determine the relationship between the HBM and preventive measure against rabies was the development of a questionnaire consisting of multiple sections to determine general information, general knowledge on rabies, HBM model focused questions on protective activities, prevention, and care after a incident (Morowatisharifabad et. al., 2014). The questionnaire were then approved by a panel of experts, with a Crobach’s alpha test of reliability, Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) was used for statistical analysis, with regression analysis and t-test for independent samples, P-value was at 0.05 (Morowatisharifabad et. al.,

I have learned many things throughout the course of the term, including such things as: how to write an essay and how to improve on essays that I have already written, how to locate and composite better research through the use of numerous resources found at the campus library, the internet, and the “Common Sense” textbook, how to cite research, examples, and quotations properly within the contents of my research paper as well as document it accurately according to MLA standards. Through the exploration of the “Subjects and Strategies” textbook, I have learned nine different methods used when writing an effective essay and how the different writing styles affect the overall theme and tone of the essay when used properly. This past

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.