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  1. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jun 5, 2024 · Furious rabies results in hyperactivity, excitable behaviour, hallucinations, lack of coordination, hydrophobia (fear of water) and aerophobia (fear of drafts or of fresh air). Death occurs after a few days due to cardio-respiratory arrest. Paralytic rabies accounts for about 20% of the total number of human cases. This form of rabies runs a ...

  2. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Rabies is a zoonosis (transmission from animals to humans), and human infection usually occurs following a bite or scratch by an infected animal. About 98% of human rabies occurs in regions with large numbers of stray dogs, although other carnivores such as foxes and bats may transmit rabies to humans.

  3. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jan 20, 2025 · Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease that causes progressive and fatal inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Clinically, it has two forms: Furious rabies – characterized by hyperactivity and hallucinations. Paralytic rabies – characterized by paralysis and coma.

  4. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Rabies is an infectious viral disease that is almost always fatal following the onset of clinical signs. It affects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people through bites or scratches, usually via saliva. Dogs are the main hosts and transmitters of rabies. They are the cause of human rabies deaths in 99% of all cases.

  5. Rabies is a viral disease transmitted from mammals to humans that causes an acute encephalitis. There are two clinical manifestations of rabies: furious and paralytic. Furious rabies is the most common form of human rabies. Once symptoms of the disease develop, either form is almost always fatal. Rabies is transmitted through mucosal

  6. rabies endemic areas, where access to PEP is difficult, the dog bite incidence is >5% per year or vampire bat rabies is known to be present. The immune response to subsequent rabies vaccine boosters such as PEP when exposed, can be recalled very effectively even decades after PrEP.

  7. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Feb 26, 2018 · Rabies is a success story for implementing One-health. Rabies is a zoonotic disease, which means it is transmitted to human from animals. Coordination of elimination efforts between human and veterinary health is the only way to prevent human rabies deaths long term.

  8. Rabies - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Mar 20, 2025 · Rabies is a vaccine-preventable, zoonotic, viral disease. Dogs are the source of the vast majority of rabies virus transmission, through bites or scratches, usually via saliva. Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is virtually 100% fatal. Clinically, it has two forms: Furious rabies – characterized by hyperactivity and hallucinations.

  9. Vaccinating against rabies to save lives - World Health …

    Sep 27, 2019 · Human rabies is a 100% vaccine-preventable disease, yet it continues to kill. Rabies vaccinations are highly effective, safe and well tolerated. The WHO recommends 2 main immunization strategies for the prevention of human rabies: Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) which includes extensive and thorough wound washing at the rabies-exposure site, together …

  10. Ebola virus disease - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Apr 20, 2023 · Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in what is now Nzara, South Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease takes its name. The virus family Filoviridae includes 3 genera: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus, and Ebolavirus.

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