The Rabies - A Guide To Know
However, today we have much more powerful medical facilities for fight against disease but rabies has beer and is still regarded in all parts of the World as one of the most terrifying disease known to man and certainly as the disease causing the most terrible death. All warm blooded animals are susceptible to rabies; but according to the World Health Organisation`s expert committee on the disease, ‘not all animals are equally susceptible. The most highly susceptible are foxes, coyotes, jackals, and wolves, kangaroo rats, cotton rats and common field voles’. Dogs are listed as only moderately susceptible; but dogs are without any doubt the animals most likely to spread the infection to human beings. In man, if one is infected then one of the manifestations of the infection is –‘inability to swallow liquids, that`s why it has given the disease the name -> Hydrophobia. Since the development of symptoms in man is sufficiently different from that in other animals, hydr...