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Rabies Essay

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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 …show more content…

Paralytic rabies sometimes cause animals to become depressed and to hide off somewhere by themselves. As the disease progresses, it takes the animal into paralysis. The symptoms of these rabies are things like an animal’s inability to raise its head up and even to make sounds. It might also be unusually weak and lethargic. These unfortunate animals also look as if they’re choking and have continuous drool coming from their mouths. Another thing is it sometimes causes an animal to lose its fear of humans. Any animal (that by nature is usually shy) seen being social with people should raise alarm that the animal probably has rabies.
Furious rabies are just the opposite. They cause animals to become over ecstatic towards other animals, people, and even stationary objects. Animals with furious rabies seem to be agitated and restless at all times. In some cases, animals with furious rabies will gnaw and bite at their own limbs. These animals are constantly growling at everything they see. They have also been known for getting involuntary and intense seizures that are terribly painful for the animal.
People can also be infected by this destructive disease. Their symptoms are things like a fever, headache, and loss of appetite. These people also have a terrible itching and burning at the

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