Rabies is also known as hydrophobia or mad dog disease. Hydrophobia is named according to the performance of people after infection. Sick dogs are not afraid of water or light. Mad dog disease is more suitable for dogs. The clinical manifestations of cats and dogs are jealousy, excitement, mania, drooling and loss of consciousness, followed by physical paralysis and death, usually accompanied by non suppurative encephalitis.

Rabies in cats and dogs can be roughly divided into prodromal period, excitement period and paralysis period, and the incubation period is mostly 20-60 days.

Rabies in cats is usually very violent. Generally speaking, pet owners can easily distinguish it. The cat hides in the dark. When people pass by, it suddenly rushes out to scratch and bite people, especially likes to attack people’s head and face. This is similar to many cats and people playing, but in fact, there is a big difference. When playing with people, hunting does not produce claws and teeth, and rabies attacks very hard. At the same time, the cat will show divergent pupils, drooling, muscle trembling, bow back and fierce expression. Finally, he entered the paralysis stage, paralysis of limbs and head muscles, hoarseness of voice, and finally coma and death.

Dogs are often introduced to rabies. The prodromal period is 1-2 days. Dogs are depressed and dull. They hide in the dark. Their pupils are dilated and congested. They are very sensitive to sound and surrounding activities. They like to eat foreign bodies, stones, wood and plastics. All kinds of plants will bite, increase saliva and drool. Then enter the frenzy period, which begins to increase aggression, throat paralysis, and attack any moving animals around. In the last stage, the mouth is difficult to close because of paralysis, the tongue hangs out, the hind limbs are unable to walk and swing, gradually paralyzed, and finally died.

Rabies virus is easy to infect almost all warm blooded animals, among which dogs and cats are highly susceptible to rabies virus, and they usually live around us, so they should be vaccinated timely and effectively. Back to the previous video, is the dog really rabies?

Rabies virus mainly exists in the brain, cerebellum and spinal cord of diseased animals. There are also a large number of viruses in salivary glands and saliva, and they are discharged with saliva. That is why most of them are infected by biting the skin, and some people are infected by eating the meat of diseased animals or eating each other between animals. It has been reported that humans, dogs, cattle and other animals spread through placenta and aerosol in experiments (to be further confirmed).