Is rabies inflection certain after bites from rabbi dogs?!
Question: Is rabies inflection certain after bites from rabbi dogs?
However, Pasteur use the vaccine on the patient after he was bitten by a rabbi dog, that contradict my understanding to vaccination. Wasn't vaccinations a method of prevention rather than cure?
If so, is it possible that the boy "cured" by Pasteur didn't actually get rabbi after the bites?
I checked wiki page and it said the inflecction chance after being bitten by a rabbi dog us only 15%, I wonder it is correct or not.
Answers:
rabies infection once bitten is based on how much of the virus got in you and where you were bitten, the closer it is to the central nervous sytem the more likely it will develop into infection. bites from a rabid dog on the head or fingers has up to 90% chance of getting rabies, while a bit on the leg may only have 30% chance, when a dog or what ever rabid animal it may be bites through clothing less of the virus gets through, some estimates of a person wearing jeans and getting bitten on the leg by a rabid dog the chance of rabies is only 5%.
The rabies post exposure vaccine is the most successful way of preventing rabies from developing, no one in the US has gotten rabies after being vaccinated (no one out of over a million shots)within 4 days of the bite. but in developing countries it is noted that 1 in 500,000 people who get the vaccine after being bitten will still die of rabies.
The vaccine only works because rabies usually takes between 4days to years to develop. the average is 1-3months. because rabies takes alot longer to develop than a flu, you can be vaccinated while the virus is still in you you just have to do it before illness sets in or else your immune system wont have enough time to fight off the virue and the infected person would die.
rabies has no effective treatment other than the post exposure vaccination which is a seires of 10-17 shots. i myself had to undergo the seires following a bat bite, its not too bad . the boy that pastuer vaccinated never got rabies, and he was bitten 14 times by a rabid dog, if he didnt get vaccinated he surely would have died from rabies given the extent of his wounds.
Rabies is a special case of infection, as it takes a long time after the bite for the infection to develop and attack the body. During that time, a person can be vaccinated (given killed or weakened rabies virus), and develop an immunity before the full strength rabies from the bite finally attacks the body.
It is odd that such a non-typical virus and vaccination is given as a famous example of vaccination. That's only because it was one of the first properly understood and used vaccinations. Of course, famous because it cured a dreaded disease that had been 100% fatal. (100% fatal once symptoms started to develop. I don't know anything about a 15% chance of infection from being bitten.)
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