if you are bitten by any animal you should get professional medical treatment as soon as possible, even if it is just a bandage and you think they will all laugh after you leave, it's not only rabies that is a threat to you. Pet are sometimes more dangerous the wild animals, they tend to harbor more infection, that are more likely to cross over to humans.
you have rabies
yes
Thefirst rabies vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur in 1885.
A monkey bite can infect a human with rabies just the same as any other animal infected with it can. Monkeys are NOT born with rabies. They need to be bit by another infected animal. If a monkey has never been exposed to rabies then no, its bite will not "cause" rabies. If however, the monkey has been around another rabid animal and it was bit, it can infect another animal or person if it bites them. Note, rabies is deadly in monkeys just as it is in humans, so a monkey with rabies would not live very long anyway.Rabies is a neurotropic virus that can cause fatal disease in humans, it is transmitted to them by infective animals who have themselves contracted Rabies. A common infection route is established by a bite, or by saliva from an infected animal entering through a skin wound or lesion.At the outset it should be made clear that there is NO established evidence that any monkey has ever transmitted a Rabies infection to a human.
Bite on the shoulder is serious problem. Your brain in very nearby. You need to give rabies immunoglobulin in this patient. The sixth dose of anti-rabies vaccine on day 90 is necessary. You may skip the immunoglobulin in case of leg bite.
If you get bite by a animal with it and do not treat it you could die
If you are bitten by a rabid animal, the vaccine can prevent the virus from infecting the central nervous system. See link below for more information:
Rabies. Although, if the dog has had it's rabies shot you don't need a vaccine. You just need to get the wound cleaned. Go to your doctor and tell him. He'll know what to do.
There have been only 1 death in the us in 2010.
It used to be that a rabies vaccination had to be given to the abdomen after someone was bitten by an animal though to have rabies. This was because the gut was where the virus was thought to replicate. Now days, the vaccine no longer has to be given in the abdomen.
That is a very good question. You can take one dose of vaccine for minor bite on distal part of extremity. You observe the dog for 8 days. If the dog survives and well, the further doses of vaccine may not be given.
get vacinated for rabies and tetnus right away