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Shahina Bateri
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How do you get rabies?

• You can get the rabies virus


from the saliva of a rabid
animal – in most cases, by
being bitten.
• Any mammal can get rabies,
and there are a few wild
mammals which are
commonly infected.
• Most dogs get rabies from
skunks due to their natural
attraction towards skunks.
Raccoons, bats, skunks, and • Most people get rabies from
coyotes are common carriers bats.
of the rabies virus
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What does the virus do?

• The virus replicates


itself within the cell.
The copies of the virus
then burst out of the
cell and move on to
infect other cells.

• After a rabid animal bites another


See our online curriculum to
animal, the virus in the saliva learn more about nerve cells
attaches itself to a nerve cell. and the nervous system.
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The Virus at Work
The virus also infects the
salivary glands.

The virus travels all the


way to the brain and
throughout the nervous
system, causing severe
inflammation.

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What are the symptoms?
The disease has three stages.
1. Prodromal: Animal
changes personality. For
example, a shy animal
becomes friendly.
2. Furious: Animal becomes
angry, commonly bites, and
might continuously drool.
3. Paralytic: Animal loses the
It usually takes 1-3 months for ability to move, especially
symptoms to appear after an in the jaw, and will drool
animal is infected with the virus. even more.
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Where is rabies found?
• The virus is found all
over the world and is
in every state in the
U.S. except Hawaii.
• Most cases occur due
to bites from infected
wildlife.
• In 2001, there were
over 7,000 reported
cases of rabies in the
U.S.

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How to Protect Yourself

• Do not approach
mammals in the wild and
get away from any wild
animals that act tame Rabies
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around you.
• Keep your pets vaccinated
for rabies and do not let
them run around with wild
animals.

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The Rabies Vaccine

• The vaccine is a inactivated


virus usually grown in a
chicken embryo.
• The vaccine should be given to
animals every 3 years and to
people that work around wild
animals.

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Vaccinating Wildlife
• The Texas Wildlife Damage
Management Service has a
• The programprogram
vaccination is reducing
that the
spread
deliversofthe
rabies among
rabies vaccine
coyotes in South
orally using food Texas
bait. and
gray foxes in West Texas.

TWDM agents at work

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