Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by the invasion of rabies virus into the body. It is commonly found in carnivorous animals such as canines and cats, and most people are infected and die because they are bitten by these animals. After the disease, there is no excitement period, but there is fear of water phenomenon, with high fever, vomiting, headache, bite pain and other symptoms, accompanied by limb weakness, abdominal distension, ataxia, muscle weakness, complete incontinence and other conditions. The course of the disease can last up to 10 days and death can result from bulbar paralysis and paralysis of the respiratory muscles.
The symptoms of rabies are very obvious, even people without medical knowledge can also observe the obvious onset of the state. If your kitten shows a fear of people and likes to spend long periods of time in shady Spaces, he or she is constantly chirping. May also be accompanied by fear of water, fear of light, fear of sound and other phenomena, it can be diagnosed as rabies.
Once a rabid animal shows symptoms of the disease, death is inevitable within 10 days. Recommended in three months or so injection of animal rabies vaccine, and at ordinary times also want to maintain the state of captivity, it is best not to let the kitten contact with the outside world, home to regular disinfection, can greatly reduce the incidence of rabies. In the earliest stages of the disease, the saliva of an infected person contains a lot of rabies virus, which can easily be transmitted by contact, play or bite (scratch). After the early onset of the disease is into the excitement period, its performance is the cat fidgeting, impatient, can not eat normally at this time, and attack the crazy state of people, many are injured by the sick animals are mostly belong to this period was bitten. Finally, in the advanced stages, the diseased animals suddenly develop breathing difficulties and, in severe cases, die of systemic failure.
It is worth noting that a small number of infected kittens will show a ‘quiet type’, that is, no obvious excitatory behavior, but after wounding people can also infect other organisms with rabies. At the beginning of the same will hide in the dark not close to people, do not listen to the master’s call. If you reach out and grab it, you’ll get bite symptoms. After 2 days of illness, kittens will run around, be irritable, and salivate with their tails between their legs, and actively attack people. Later onset of paralysis, do not eat, tongue out of the mouth, serious saliva. And finally death.
