A dog crawled on me when I was walking on the street. Should I get a rabies vaccine? Urgent! Urgent!

It's okay, you're overly worried. You're wearing jeans and the dog's claws are too dull to scratch. And healthy dogs cannot transmit rabies.

You should know more about scientific knowledge. In fact, a lot of publicity about rabies is wrong, because now a huge profit-making industry chain for rabies vaccines has been formed, which does not exclude organizations at all levels, drug dealers, The media and some irresponsible medical circles deliberately create panic and obtain improper benefits.

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[How to determine whether to vaccinate against rabies]

World Health Organization -- Rabies Research Center referred to as "WHO" The authoritative statement is this.

1. Healthy dogs (cats and other animals) are not poisonous ("poisonous" is a medical term, meaning "infectious", here "not poisonous"). This means that even if cats and dogs carry the rabies virus, they are not contagious until they become ill) (no injection required)

2. Rabies virus disease is caused by the virus invading the brain cells of animals. When rabies attacks, the animal will usually show very obvious abnormalities, which are easy to identify. At this time, the animal's saliva is poisonous (containing viruses) and is contagious. If you are bitten by such an animal, you must be vaccinated against rabies.

3. Dogs (cats) only carry the virus after a rabies attack. Only when a warm-blooded animal that has already developed rabies bites a person can the rabies virus be transmitted to a person through saliva. In this case, you need to Rabies prevention.

4. In view of the fact that 100% of warm-blooded animals such as dogs and cats die within 3 to 5 days after the onset of rabies (some literature says that it is rare to die within 8 days). The first 3-5 days are the infectious period, and the risk is only if bitten. Even if you are bitten, you don’t have to worry if the dog (cat) does not develop rabies and die within 10 days, because it was not in the infectious period when it bit you (10). Days is the safe observation period specially extended by the World Health Organization) (This period was originally proposed by a Thai doctor. Note that Thailand is also an area with a high incidence of rabies and an epidemic area)

5. People who have symptoms of the disease or are related to health If a cat (dog) is bitten by a warm-blooded animal such as a dog (cat) with abnormal behavior, after you are bitten, you should get a rabies vaccine as soon as possible and observe the cat (dog) that bit you. If within 10 days, the cat or dog If rabies has not yet occurred, you can stop the rabies vaccination, which can determine that you have not been infected with rabies at all.

6. Rabies has an incubation period. According to detailed research by the World Health Organization, most of it is 20 days. In February, the maximum period was 6 years. As for some cases in my country, the World Health Organization expressed doubts. No evidence of long-term latent cases has been found in the world. Infectious disease medical experts also believe that it may be misdiagnosis or secondary exposure (medical term, the second time it is transmitted).

7. Rabies vaccination can be delayed (if you have been bitten and it has been 6 years, you can rest assured that if it is expired within 6 years, If you are not worried about the bite, you can get the rabies vaccine again, which is equivalent to the first exposure (but you need to get two shots first)