is nearly 100 percent effective in preventing rabies from developing. However, even though PEP has been around since the time of Louis Pasteur, and improved since then, it remains unavailable or unaffordable in developing countries where people are most at risk. The mortality rate of rabies is not comparable between North America and continents like Asia and Africa. North America deaths per year are usually about two compared to the thirty thousand in Asia and Africa. In the last one hundred years rabies has changed dramatically in the United States (Finnegan et.al, 2002). There is only one state that is rabies free and that is Hawaii. Around ninety percent of rabies cases take place with wildlife, whereas before 1960 majority came from …show more content…
All of these costs are at the hands of public health. The 300,000,000 dollars includes the vaccination of companion animals, animal control programs, maintenance of rabies laboratories, and medical costs, such as those incurred for rabies PEP (Yousaf et.al, 2012). It is estimated that forty thousand PEP are given each year, meaning that not only must there be a primary prevention plan but a secondary prevention plan as well. The vaccine is given in five doses over a three week the estimated cost exceeds one thousand dollars (Yousaf et.al, …show more content…
Most states require just dogs to have rabies vaccination, while some require both cats and dogs. There are also some states like Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington that do not require rabies vaccinations (CDC, 2010). In these states most laws or policies do not require rabies vaccination of dogs unless they have bitten someone and proof of rabies vaccination is unavailable. In most states all dog bites must be reported to the health department. Regulations vary greatly from state to state, and local laws vary as well. Local regulations, under law, can be stricter than laws at the State level. Punishment varies state to state and county to county (CDC, 2010). Many states also have pet importation laws that require a health certificate from a vet in order to legally move an animal across state lines (CDC, 2010). If a person’s pet was last vaccinated more than twelve months ago, and the person decides to move they are required by law to get their animal vaccinated. Some states do have an exemption form that a veterinarian must sign that states the pet is currently healthy, however they have had a reaction to the rabies virus or they have illness that rabies vaccine could react with (CDC, 2010). Hawaii has very strict quarantine regulations against
It was the winter of 2009, my siblings and I went to go play in the snow. We went to the backyard, and in order to go to the backyard we had to jump the fence. We were having a great time; we made a snow fort, had a snowball fight, but when we were playing tag my brother tripped and twisted his ankle. We were going to take him back inside so we were about to leave but, he couldn’t climb over the fence and it was buried in the snow so we couldn’t move it. My friend Caleb, and his sister heard and we tried to move the fence together. Eventually they gave up, and went back home because their mom was calling them. Which made me kind of angry, but I realized that ninety five percent of friends don’t have that bond that family does. We stayed with
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.
Since vaccines are made from inactivated cell, there are possibilities that the injected vaccines will be rejected by the body due to the immune system. One of the procedures is mixing blood serum from the vaccinated children with live poliovirus and cells in culture. If the vaccine worked, the vaccine will protect the cells and block he poliovirus but if it’s failed, worse consequences can take place. At that point, the problem is to get the cells to be tested. Scientists at the current time use monkeys which will be killed in the process. The trouble they had did not come from animal
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.
About 1,000 people in every 1 million vaccinated for the first time experience serious reaction, though not life-threatening, while 14 and 52 people in every 1 million vaccinated for the first time experienced life-threatening reactions. In severe cases such as post vaccinal encephalitis (12 cases per million) and progressive vaccinia (1.5 cases per million) can lead to death. (Plotkin,
Polio went from deadly to non-existent when the vaccine for it was developed in 1955 (Welch, 2014, ¶11). Rubella went from 48,000 people a year and kill about 17, and now just infecting 17 with no fatalities. Prior to 1965, thousands of infants were born with Congenital Rubella Syndrome which caused birth defects such as hearing and vision loss, heart problems, congenital cataracts, liver and spleen damage, and mental disabilities because their mothers were infected with the rubella virus. In 2006, there was only one
Everything you have heard about African Rabies is false. There is no cure and you are in danger. The people that are infected are dangerous and they are not human. The virus is spread through bites and the infected are killed by killing their brain. Leaders all over Wilson have risen to save the city from this infestation that is just outside our borders. This report laid out in the next couple of paragraphs will provide everything you need to prepare, protect, and preserve your life.
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.
“Before there was a vaccine for diphtheria in the 1930s, for example the disease infected about 21,000 people in the United States each year, killing 1,800. By 2006 both numbers were zero” (Bailey). “Polio also went from deadly (16,000 cases, 1,900 deaths) to non-existent after vaccines were rolled out in the 1950s and 1960s” (Bailey). “Another example is chickenpox, which used to infect about 4 million kids a year, hospitalize 11,000 and kill 105, and within a decade of after the vaccines came out in the mid-1990s, infections had dropped to 600,000 resulting in 1,276 hospitalizations and 19 deaths” (Bailey). It is a very simple fact that vaccines are the most effective tool yet invented for preventing contagious airborne diseases (Bailey). As shown in studies all these diseases that
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.
Health is a very important part of a long life because it can reduce or even prevent problems such as communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, and can even protect you in case of accidents. I hope in reading this my readers will come out with more information to help live longer, safer lives.
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
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
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.
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.