Why did you get caught by a dog or a cat? Do you need a rabies vaccine?

Don't despise being scratched by cats and dogs, but don't panic too much. Because the probability of rabies attack is far lower than the probability of falling to death. People's panic stems in part from misunderstanding about rabies. To correctly understand rabies, you need to know these things besides vaccination! Because animals such as cats and dogs may carry rabies virus, if bitten by cats and dogs carrying rabies virus, it may cause rabies virus infection. Once rabies occurs, the mortality rate of patients can be as high as 100%. At present, there is no effective method to completely cure rabies. For rabies, the most important thing at present is prevention. After being bitten by a cat or dog, the wound should be cleaned in time, and the wound can be washed with clear water or normal saline. Secondly, the wound should be thoroughly disinfected, and the wound can be disinfected with hydrogen peroxide or iodophor; Then, if the skin injury is serious, debridement and suture are needed; Then you need to inject rabies vaccine and rabies immunoglobulin within 24 hours of being bitten, and prevent rabies by injecting vaccine.

Can the incubation period of rabies virus in human body be 10-20 years? This is simply an international joke. According to the latest official authoritative document of the World Health Organization, the incubation period of human rabies usually does not exceed 3 months, and it is extremely rare that it exceeds 1 year and does not exceed 10 year. If someone tells you that rabies has a incubation period of more than ten or twenty years, it can basically be concluded that it is a rumor.