Does the pet dog need an injection when it is caught?

Do you need an injection when you are caught by a dog?

My dog was vaccinated once, but not the second time. When playing with him, his nails always catch me, sometimes leaving a stripe, not very deep, like a scratch when the skin is too dry. Do you want to go to the hospital for an injection?

First of all, you have to know what a vaccine is! Vaccines are attenuated viruses-antibodies produced by the human immune system after injection fight the virus! It is an antibody against the virus, not a vaccine against the virus!

Vaccination may not produce antibodies for various reasons, which is called immune failure! If there is any antibody, you will know as soon as you test it! Doesn't mean that you can produce it with a vaccine!

If you suspect that it is an animal injury with rabies virus! Not a vaccine! If the vaccine is injected at this time, it will induce the virus that has not yet attacked! The injection is serum (serum is a foreign antibody! ) can directly resist the virus!

Finally, you should read the following article carefully and then decide what you should do.

Rabies phobia is a unique phenomenon in China. No country in the world attaches so much importance to rabies as China. The general prejudice and fallacy against rabies is one of the important reasons for the massive abuse of rabies vaccine in China.

On September 8th, the 24th edition of Southern Weekend published "Who should get rabies vaccine? The author of Rabies Phobia and Vaccine Abuse is Yan Jiaxin, a researcher at the Rabies Testing Center of Wuhan Institute of Biological Products. I read this popular science article very carefully. Assuming that the conclusion is based on internationally recognized medical research, we can identify some traditional fallacies (is there any economic motivation for stakeholders to vigorously promote vaccines? ), from which several basic conclusions can be drawn. Because the original text is professional, I summarize it as follows according to my own understanding (I will pay for it if I don't understand it properly):

First, the incubation period of rabies is usually 1-3 months, and the incubation period of a few severe head and face bites may be as short as 7 days, and only 1% of the total may be longer than one year.

Second, healthy dogs will not spread rabies. The simple and practical identification method is "ten-day observation method". According to WHO, if the dog (or cat) stays healthy within the observation period 10 days after the injury, the injured person will not be infected.

Thirdly, if you have not been vaccinated before in an epidemic area where rabies is prevalent, you should immediately inject the vaccine (you can't wait for 10 days, if the observed animal really dies within 10 days, it will be green) at the same time of starting the "10 day observation method", and then determine whether it is necessary to take a few more shots according to the observation results.

Fourth, there is no strict scientific evidence to prove that mice and rabbits will be infected with rabies. Birds, reptiles, fish and insects will not be infected with rabies.

Fifth, correct wound irrigation can reduce the incidence rate by more than 50%.

Assuming that rabies virus has entered the central nervous system, the vaccine may still be effective. After rabies virus enters the central nervous system, it will either be cleared or become ill within 3-5 days. Under any circumstances, it is impossible for rabies virus to lurk in the central nervous system (including the brain and spinal cord) for a long time.

Once rabies breaks out, people will die within ten days. Some people have long suspected that they have rabies symptoms, and they must not be rabies.

Eight, as long as the whole process of vaccination before the onset produces effective antibodies (note: immune failure does not count), rabies virus can not be "latent" in the body, and it will not happen again.

Nine, if the whole process is immunized with 3-5 needles, the protection can last for decades. If you get bitten again, 2 stitches will be enough. This view is far below the standards of the Ministry of Health.

X. Compared with WHO, our current national standard is obviously vaccine abuse. This is not only a serious waste of resources, but also the official caliber has guided the "phobia" of the whole people.

These summaries are still too professional. Let me put it more bluntly: if you are bitten and scratched by a cat or dog, you should wash it at the first time and be immunized throughout the whole process (3-5 stitches for the first time, and then you are accidentally bitten, and up to 2 stitches will be strengthened); 2, observe the little guy who caused the accident 10 days. You're fine if you're fine, and you don't need an injection in your back; 3. If you can't follow up the situation of the little guy and complete the steps 1 at most 1 year, you will definitely be fine (there will be no terrorist rumors lurking for decades); 4. If the little guy really hangs up within 10 days, you will have a chance to win by completing step 1 the first time; See a doctor at once, don't let it break out.

To put it bluntly, what I really want to express is that cats and dogs are generally healthy. After being bitten, we should face it with a scientific attitude and simply deal with it with a scientific method. We can't ignore it, but we don't need to exaggerate or panic. Mania, dog phobia, neighborhood disputes, social contradictions and long-term misleading public opinion are hard to blame. It is the interests that mislead the public, and it is ignorance that leads to the unique spectacle that China people's attitudes towards cats and dogs are divided into two camps: love and hate. The lives of cats and dogs, under the gorgeous and legal banner of public health and safety, have become the most pitiful victims of some interest groups.

Appendix: Who should be vaccinated against rabies? "Rabies phobia" and vaccine abuse

Rabies phobia is a unique phenomenon in China. No country in the world attaches so much importance to rabies as China. The general prejudice and fallacy against rabies is one of the important reasons for the massive abuse of rabies vaccine in China.

At present, China people are most afraid of infectious diseases, except AIDS, which is rabies. Rabies phobia, referred to as "phobia", has now become a very popular psychological disease that can almost keep pace with "phobia".

Recently, the abuse of rabies vaccine in China has aroused widespread concern. The annual consumption of rabies vaccine in China reaches150,000 people, exceeding 80% of the global total. If vaccines are not used at all, 30,000 people will die of rabies every year in China. This means that 99.8% of the vaccinators can not be vaccinated theoretically, and at least 1/3 of them may be abused. So, what circumstances may belong to abuse? How to avoid abuse?

The most common manifestation of phobia is the abuse of rabies vaccine. Even after repeated vaccination, people still have a lingering fear. The prevalence of phobia is obviously one of the important reasons for the abuse of rabies vaccine in China.

Rabies is an infectious disease with the highest mortality and the lowest incidence, and it is easy for people to overreact. At present, unscientific remarks about rabies are rampant on the Internet or in real life, and all kinds of strange opinions are quite common among "experts" and the public, which makes some people who have contacted cats and dogs (even those who have never contacted them at all) stay in fear for a long time, and even develop into obsessive-compulsive disorder or hysteria. Some people have been vaccinated many times, but they still travel thousands of miles to Wuhan for antibody testing every month, fearing that "once the antibody is lowered, rabies will break out." Some people think that the virus has sneaked into their brains, and they will die and lose their jobs. They look up information on the Internet all day and are at a loss in all kinds of contradictory information. Some people suspect that the vaccine is fake, some people suspect that there is a live virus in the vaccine, some people suspect that rabies virus can spread through the air, and some people suspect that nurses and experts are struggling with endless troubles all day.

When it comes to rabies, we must first clarify the most basic fact: the risk of rabies is not the same as that of AIDS (there is no effective vaccine for the latter at present, and the relevant basic immune mechanism is still unclear). The prevention and treatment of rabies has been basically solved in medicine for a long time. Rabies has been effectively controlled in all developed countries and some developing countries in the world, and the number of rabies deaths has remained at or near zero every year for many years. Rabies 100% can be prevented: no matter how serious the exposure is, 100% can be avoided as long as it is treated according to the plan approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

In this article, the author will list some representative cases and explain how to avoid the abuse of rabies vaccine. The author will provide several simple and practical standards to help phobia patients get out of the shadows as soon as possible.

How long is the incubation period?

The incubation period of rabies may be as long as forty years? Fifty years? Even for life. Is China going to set the Guinness Book of Records again? In some professional magazines and even textbooks in China, the incubation period of rabies is often described as decades.

Are these "cases" in China really rabies? Because there is no laboratory diagnosis basis, or it is impossible to prove that no new infection has occurred recently (for example, through some special or rare ways), these "cases" have not been recognized by international academic circles, and even passed down as jokes internationally, as an example of the low level of related science in China.

Domestic and foreign data show that the incubation period of rabies is usually 1-3 months, and the incubation period of a few serious head and face bites may be as short as 7 days, and the incubation period of a few cases (less than 1% of the total) may exceed one year.

At present, the longest incubation period of rabies recognized by the international mainstream scientific community is 6 years. American scholar 199 1 reported the case in a professional magazine. The deceased was a Filipino immigrant who never left the United States after immigrating to the United States. Because the probability of rabies infection in the United States is extremely small, and the results of partial gene sequence analysis prove that the rabies virus isolated from the brain of the deceased is the same as the strain prevalent in the country of origin of the deceased, this report proves with the most convincing evidence so far that the incubation period of rabies may be as long as 6 years.

Due to the small number of similar cases and the incomplete evidence chain, the relevant academic circles still have objections to the case report. For example, many French scholars believe that cases with incubation period of more than one year, if any, are very few, and the possibility of recurrence after one year is slim. They all laughed at the idea of extending the incubation period.

Too many people have been bitten by dogs in China for decades. If the incubation period of rabies is really that long and so many people have to be vaccinated, then the annual vaccination amount of rabies in China will increase by a considerable amount. Many phobia patients are scared silly by the legend that rabies has a long incubation period.