Jiangjin District Central Hospital dog injury outpatient clinic opened ~

In order to facilitate the timely treatment of people injured by animals and effectively reduce their risk of contracting rabies virus, Jiangjin Central Hospital has set up a dog injury clinic in the first aid Department to provide 24-hour medical services for people in the area.

Automatic irrigation instrument for rabies exposed wound

The clinic has gone through preliminary planning, construction and training, and has passed the examination and acceptance of the District Health Commission and the District CDC. At present, it is equipped with automatic washing equipment for rabies exposed wounds, as well as professional canine wound treatment personnel and vaccinators, who can carry out wound washing, surgical debridement, rabies vaccination and other diagnosis and treatment work in a comprehensive standard.

Emergency physicians remind: after being scratched and bitten by cats and dogs and other animals, do not take chances, should go to regular medical institutions in time to deal with. Because timely vaccination can greatly reduce the incidence of rabies, is the best preventive measure at present.

Tips: When you encounter any animal injury problems, please see a doctor in time, dog injury clinic medical staff for 24 hours dedicated service for you.

What is rabies?

Rabies is an acute infectious disease of the central nervous system caused by the rabies virus. It is a kind of infectious disease with high mortality of both human and animal (zoonotic).

Human rabies is usually caused by an infected (or infected) animal (dog, cat, mouse, fox, bat, etc.) biting or scratching the skin of the human body. The virus travels from the wound to the local muscle to proliferate, then travels up the nerve bundle to the ganglion, and finally reaches the central nervous system. Once onset, 100% die.

After a person has rabies, the clinical manifestations will be mania, fear, fear of wind and water, salivation and pharyngeal muscle spasm, eventually occur paralysis, life-threatening. After infection with rabies virus, it usually takes 2 to 8 weeks to develop the disease, and the elderly can reach more than one year.

Which animals can transmit rabies virus?

Rabies virus is mainly transmitted by dogs and cats, in addition to wild animals (mice, monkeys, bats, etc.) and other domestic animals (pigs, cattle, etc.).

Rabies vaccine

Is it still useful to get rabies vaccine more than 24 hours after a bite?

The sooner you get the rabies vaccine, the better. If vaccination is not timely due to various reasons, the rabies vaccine should be reinoculated as soon as possible before the onset of disease (no matter how long it is before exposure to rabies).

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