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The History of Rabies in Cats and Dogs.

Sat, 6 Jul 2008 05:28:54 GMT

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History of Rabies in Cats and Dogs.

Rabies - a word derived from the Sanskrit, ‘to do violence’ - which was also known in Latin as ‘the madness’ - is apparently one of the oldest documented diseases of humankind. The symptoms described in ancient literature are exactly the same as we see now in modern times.

Various people through the ages, tried to work out where it came from and how it was passed on, mainly due to the effect on humans, which was - before 1900 - madness and certain death!

During the early part of the nineteenth century, European scientists proved in experiments that saliva from rabid humans and dogs would infect healthy dogs. This confirmed the centuries-old suspicion that the cause of rabies being transmitted from one animal to another was associated with the saliva of the rabid animal.

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Perhaps the most famous of all medical experiments involved the early use of a rabies vaccine in humans by Louis Pasteur, which had proved successful only in dogs. On July 6, 1885, he administered his first ‘human vaccine’ to a 9-year old boy who had been attacked by a dog - which almost certainly had rabies. The boy was given thirteen separate injections over the following 2 weeks, and survived.

However this isn’t the end of the rabies story. Only certain countries have cheap and plentiful access to the modern versions of these vaccines. Even now, only developed countries can get vaccinations at a low cost prior to infection at a low cost, and not every country even has access to the vaccine given after infection.

Facts like these go to explain why there were still 55,000 reported human cases of rabies last year alone, with no doubt a large number more that went unreported in isolated communities across the globe.

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WHO claim that a huge majority of infected humans last year were children under the age of 15, who were bitten, scratched or licked (on broken skin) by feral or domestic but free roaming dogs. Many of these children were just unable to get treatment either because of where they lived or the very high cost.

Even in areas where the vector animals are being targeted for oral vaccination in baited foods it is not always successful. Worldwide, the percentage of animals ingesting the vaccine is not above the necessary threshold for total control or eradication. Baiting has been successful in areas of Europe, but even the United States cannot seem to control this disease (Hawaii is only rabies free due to it’s isolated location).

It would seem as though the world will have rabies for some time to come.

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The History of Rabies in Cats and Dogs.

Fri, 12 Jul 2008 05:28:54 GMT

posted by travelcat4

History of Rabies in Cats and Dogs.

Various people through the ages, tried to work out where it came from and how it was passed on, mainly due to the effect on humans, which was - before 1900 - madness and certain death!

It would seem as though the world will have rabies for some time to come.

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Re-Introduce Anti-Rabies Vaccination

Sun, 16 Jun 2008 03:11:18 GMT

posted by Rick124

June 14, 2008

THE Ghana Veterinary Medical Association (GVMA) has called on the government to reintroduce the annual rabies vaccination campaign to ensure the effective control of the disease in the country.

The President of the association, Dr K.B. Darkwa, made the call at a news conference in Accra on Thursday.

The news conference was in reaction to a newspaper publication that a man who claims to be a veterinary officer, Nathan Bayor, is being held by the police for the death of a five-year old child he injected with anti rabies drugs.

Dr Darkwa said Bayor was not a member of the GVMA and has no training in veterinary services.

Rabies is an acute fatal disease caused by a virus which is transmitted through the bite of a rabid dog.

Giving statistics on the disease, Dr Darkwa said though elimination of human rabies transmission from dog-to-dog rabies cycle has been accomplished in most parts of the world, it still exists in some large geographical areas especially in Africa and Asia.

In the Greater Accra Region for instance, he said two cases of human rabies were reported in 2002 both of which resulted in death while 10 cases reported in the following year, three of the victims died.

In 2005, he said, 38 rabies-positive cases were reported while the Accra veterinary laboratory now diagnoses between six and eight cases every month on the average.

Dr Darkwa noted that rabies has no cure and the only way to control the disease is to embark on mass vaccination of pets, especially dogs and cats.

He said human anti- rabies vaccines imported by the government for the hospitals are much more expensive than that of animal rabies vaccines and added that the government could make a lot of savings by committing funds for annual rabies vaccinations of dogs and cats to kick rabies out of Ghana.

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Rabies are at an all time high in Illinois

Fri, 22 Sep 2007 05:12:49 GMT

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Submitted by Kemo on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 05:12.

The number of rabid bats in Illinois is the highest ever recorded and health officials don’t know why. Apparently so far this year 99 bats have tested positive for rabies.

Lets hope that health officials are able to determine why the cases are so high and more importantly how to protect the human population from this disease.
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Canine rabies has been eliminated in the United States

Mon, 2 Oct 2007 04:09:12 GMT

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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that canine rabies has been eliminated in the United States. However even though dog to dog transmission has been eliminated dogs still need to be vaccinated against rabies because the disease still can be found in wildlife.

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