Warning: Cat scratch can be deadly

 Mr. Doan Hong Phong - Vice-Director of the Veterinary Department in Hanoi, said: "The incidence of rabies in cats is low, while the dog is 90%, but there is still risk. In particular, the cat was rabid, the cat is extremely dangerous because regular contact with people and difficult to recapture. So do not ignore people's subjective when scratching. If the person is not infected with rabies vaccination in time, there is no way cured ".
Warning: Cat scratch can be deadly

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The tragic death
Recently, a pregnant women at week 32 in Nghe An has died after a high fever, fatigue, fear of the wind, afraid of water, not swallowed. Family members said previous patients 5 months, while 3 months pregnant, patients with dog bites, but not vaccinated against rabies.
At the hospital, doctors diagnosed the situation is very critical pregnant women, the risk of death can not be avoided should decide now to save fetal surgery. Weighs 1.6 kg baby boy born in the context of a mother struggling wild attack on the operating table.
Doctor Dinh Van Sinh, Head of Production Nghe An General Hospital said the baby when it is taken out of the womb was not able to cry, weak muscle tone, so to intubation for respiratory support steam. Almost a day after the surgery began, the mother died.
Not long way in Tuyen Quang, a 11-year-old pediatric patients also have died after being infected with rabies from a cat scratch marks. The family said patients before admission about 3 months, this boy was a neighbor's cat clawed at his back but did not tell the family said. 1 day before admission, patients with symptoms of fatigue, often shuddered several times, not eating, not drinking, so the family was afraid the wind brought me to the provincial general hospital for examination and treatment but did not survive .
According to information from the Ministry of Health, rabies is a disease caused by acute encephalomyelitis virus rabies (Rabie virus, belonging to Rhabdo-viridae) triggers. People infected with the virus will attack rabies rabies and death if not handled properly and timely. Rabies is a disease mainly occurs in warm-blooded animals such as dogs and cats.
Rabies virus is transmitted from the saliva of rabid animals are to humans via bites or scratches on the human body and invade the central nervous system. Rabies may also spread to humans when wild animals licked the wound or exposed to the skin scratched, or lining of the mouth and nose of the person.
96% of cases of human rabies caused in Southeast Asia is due to dog bites, but also some reports of rabies in humans is caused by the bite of a cat, mongoose, jackals, foxes, wolves and other types of predators. Rabies is caused by monkeys and rats is rare. Horses and donkeys often become aggressive and bite when they get rabies. Buffaloes and cows do not bite when they are infected with rabies, but also need to be wary when examined bovine sick and have symptoms of increased salivation in the mouth.
Cats suffering from little wild but dangerous
In the areas, Hanoi, more than 90% of dogs and cats are fully vaccinated for rabies. The rest will not be immunized due to factors such as mobility livestock numbers, due to the new-born livestock vaccination unqualified or in remote areas, remote areas such as in Soc Son district, Ba Vi work started to vaccinate livestock were difficult because of the fierce animals that owners and veterinary staff inaccessible.
Mr. Doan Hong Phong - Vice-Director of the Veterinary Department in Hanoi, said: "The incidence of rabies in cats is low, while the dog is 90%, but there is still risk. In particular, the cat was rabid, the cat is extremely dangerous because regular contact with people and difficult to recapture. So do not neglect people, subjective when scratching. If the person is not infected with rabies vaccination in time, there is no way cured ".
According to Mr Phong, dogs infected with rabies have two cases: dumb rabies and rabies street. Dumb rabies is common in small dogs. When rabid, small dogs often have symptoms moody, photophobia, they just lurking in the shadows. Great owners mistook symptoms are normal sick dog should voluntarily buy medicine or self treatment. Street rabies cases occur in dogs to the dog bite frenzied expression, flounder, slobber flowing. Rate higher stray dogs rabies dog vaccination is due does not.
In Vietnam, rabies circulating for years, the annual average of about 400,000 people with dogs and cats bitten prophylaxis with rabies vaccine, vaccines cash costs estimated at more than 300 billion each year. In addition, rabies also cause damage to health, the spirit of the people. Northern mountainous region is considered key areas for more than 80% of rabies deaths.
Sometimes, the owners of livestock rabies confused with foot and mouth disease, septicemia has congestive or difficulty breathing and they can be infected with rabies virus as subjective and care, pet medications by hand . No report is based on evidence of human rabies occur due to the use of milk. Slaughter professional who may be at risk of infection by killing wild animals and processing parts of the brain or other viral infection, but no cases of infection in humans by eating cooked meat nine.
Rabies transmission from human to human through cornea transplantation or other organs are relatively rare but can happen. This transmission has occurred in people receiving cornea transplants and recently occurred in some cases recipients of organ transplants and vascular tissue characteristics. Thus, the cornea or human body parts is not spread from patients who died from encephalitis or any other neurological diseases that have not been clearly diagnosed.