Nowadays, many families or individuals like to keep pets, among which dogs are the first choice of many people, and then in recent years, more and more people keep pet cats. Cats are docile, do not cause trouble, and elegant temperament, which is deeply loved by many cat lovers. Do pet cats have rabies? Then let’s take a look at some facts about whether cats have rabies collected by pet she Mall.
Rabies, as we all know, may be many netizens have not seen such patients, but certainly more or less heard of. Rabies is the acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus, people and animals can be infected, more commonly seen in dogs, cats are also included in wild animals (foxes, wolves, etc.) domestic livestock (pigs, cattle, etc.) between them and people constitute the transmission link of rabies. Human infection is usually caused by scratching or biting by animals carrying rabies virus. If effective preventive measures are not taken, it will lead to very serious acute infection of the central nervous system. Medical clinical manifestations are special fear of wind, fear of water sound, throat muscle spasm, progressive paralysis and so on.
In our country, rabies is mainly transmitted by dogs, which can become asymptomatic carriers of the virus, meaning that dogs that appear “healthy” at ordinary times are very harmful to people’s health. And there is no very effective treatment under the current science and technology, resulting in the death rate of almost 100 percent. In the face of such a fear of rabies, how to prevent it? Don’t worry.
A little Xiaobian is very responsible to tell you that the cat may also be infected with rabies! How do you get it? Being bitten by a crazy cat or a crazy dog carrying rabies virus has a great chance of suffering from rabies. If you are not careful to be scratched by them, the skin is broken and bleeding. After being bitten, you must go to the injection of rabies vaccine to avoid greater consequences.
As mentioned above, rabies is not a disease specific to dogs. All animals can get it, even cats. Sick cats, at the beginning of the whole spirit will be very abnormal, sometimes depressed, sometimes over-excited, with the usual life habits are very different, here needs to be carefully observed by the owner. To the middle stage, will wander around, mental disorders, strange movements, there will be some unconscious actions, the master will turn a blind eye, show very apathy, but also because of the pharyngeal muscle spasm will appear to bite the air, howling. In the later stage of virus attack, cats began to fear water, light, sound, temper also become irritable, drooling, the whole body muscles appear random spasm convulsions, with strong aggression, and will actively attack other cats and dogs, and even attack humans. Until finally breathing difficulties foaming at the mouth, systemic organ failure to die. Need to remind EVERYBODY HERE IS, found that got rabies cat must be sent to the doctor isolation treatment, do not deal with by themselves, in case of emergency!
In fact, as long as we do the following in daily life, rabies is not so easy to infect, the pet cat and dog of all raising are registered, and do a good job of rabies prevention vaccination, control the risk from the source of infection, discover the cat or dog carrying rabies, timely treatment and burn or deeply buried do not eat. Once bitten or scratched must be vaccinated against rabies, serious cases must also inject rabies serum. In the daily life of pets often clean care, do a good job of insect prevention and epidemic prevention.
