Rabies: Closer Than You Think :: science

Rabies Closer Than You ThinkRabies, a virus of the nervous system and salivary glands is a fast moving killer its not something to mess around with. Rabies comes from the Latin word to rage. Rabies is easily associated with rage. When people think of rabies, they usually think of a mad raccoon or dog, foaming at the mouth and running around crazy dying soon deeplyr. The thought of going crazy is a pretty clean guess for how rabies torments its victims. The virus enters by a bite or transfer of infected saliva and makes its way through the nerves toward your spinal stack and brain. Obviously, rabies is an extremely deadly virus that affects the nervous system. Immediately after being bitten, you need to seek medical attention or death forget come within a week. Rabies is a very fatal virus that, without proper medical attention, will kill its victims very swiftly, but in that respect are ways to help. There is a vaccine for people who are likely to get rabies, and there is a v accine that, if used immediately after the exposure to the rabid animal, can save the victim of rabies. These vaccines have saved the lives of many. Medical technology at its finest is what saves victims of these horrible diseases, but if you are too late and do not receive the proper compensatement in time, well, death is a lot closer than you think. Rabies is a disease that requires fast treatment. Go too slow and all you can do is wait until death comes painfully and tormenting you until you draw your last breath. Most often the cause of contamination is through the bite of a rabid animal. The virus then spreads through the nerves until it reaches the central nervous system (CNS) which is the spinal cord and the brain. Then the virus incubates in the infected creatures body for approximately 3-12 weeks. The victim armys no signs of illness during this incubation period. When the virus reaches the brain, it multiplies rapidly, passes to the salivary glands, and the infected crea ture begins to show signs of disease. The infected creature usually dies within 1 week of becoming sick. Within four or five days, the victim my then either pinch into a months long coma ending in death or die suddenly of cardiac arrest. Rabies is extremely dangerous. Its important to treat the wound when you have been bitten, but the disease isnt always transmitted through a bite.