
RABIES
The disease is caused by a virus that spreads through the saliva of infected animals. It is usually transmitted by a bite. When the virus enters the human body via a wound site, it seeks out a peripheral nerve and begins its slow journey towards the brain. When at last the brain is infected, encephalitis and rabid behaviour occur. Rabies is invariably fatal; although patients in the United States have been maintained for months on life support system until the disease has run its course.
Home Remedies
Travellers have the option of rabies vaccination before they go to a country where the virus is endemic. Most decide not to have the course of injections because even if bitten by an infected animal, it takes weeks for the virus to travel to the brain. This allows time for the tourist to return home as a matter of considerable urgency and begin treatment in familiar surroundings. Never take an animal bite in Asian and African countries lightly. Try to destroy any virus in the damaged area with Iodine antiseptics; but don't take this act of immediate intervention as curative. Travel straight to a reputable medical centre and submit to courses of anti rabies virus vaccinations.
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GENERAL HEALTH
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