A 35-year-old member asked:
what is risk of rabies in india?
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Dr. Michael H. T. Sia answered
Pediatrics 31 years experience
High!: Roughly 36% of the world’s rabies deaths occur in india each year, most of those when children come into contact with infected dogs.Rabies is caused by a virus that is transmitted to humans through the infected saliva of a range of animals. But most human deaths follow a bite by, or exposure to, an infected dog.
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A 26-year-old female asked:
Under what circumstances would a physician elect to not give you the rabies pep?
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Dr. Jay Park answered
Pediatrics 50 years experience
None: Rabies infection results in nearly 100 percent fatality.
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Can you get rabies from sharing a bottle with a infected person uk?
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Dr. Amy Halanski answered
Pediatrics 18 years experience
See cdc.com: Theoretically possible, but it has never been documented. Usually transmitted through the bite and saliva of an infected host. Only human-human documented case have been transplants. Read the cdc.Com site on rabies for more information.
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A 18-year-old female asked about a member:
Can you get rabies through a cat graze (uk)?
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Dr. Amy Halanski answered
Pediatrics 18 years experience
See cdc.com: Theoretically possible, but it has never been documented. Usually transmitted through the bite and saliva of an infected host. Read the cdc.Com site on rabies for more information. I have more concerns about cat-scratch fever. (read about online or seek physician appointment in the next few days).
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Is it possible for your cats to get rabies and give it to you when both family and cats haven't left england worrying about it to much.
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Dr. Amy Halanski answered
Pediatrics 18 years experience
Calm thoughts: These are questions for your family veterinarian as well as healthtap. Your cats should be vaccinated against rabies on the schedule your vet recomm. You can't catch rabies without you yourself receiving a bite from a mammal with rabies (or a corneal transplant from someone with rabies, only literature example).
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A 18-year-old female asked:
In England can you only catch rabies from bats or is there other ways you can get it in England ?
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Dr. Oscar Novick answered
Pediatrics 58 years experience
Rabies: Rabies has been pretty much elimited from animals in England, although bats are still carriers of the disease
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