ANSC 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Salivary Gland, List Of Domesticated Animals, Horizontal Transmission
15 Apr 2019
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Developing countries do not have the money to pay for prevention of rabies (vaccination), that is another reason why it is more frequent in those countries (africa and south-west asia) Dogs and cats are the domestic animals that have been reported to have rabies the most in north america. Horizontal transmission of genes in the virus. Animals can also pass on the virus to their offsprings. Death is pretty common once the symptoms occur, which do so when the virus reaches the brain. Can take a long time before the animal becomes infectious, but they become contagious as soon as the virus reaches the salivary gland. The only way to know that the animal or the human had rabies is after the death. There are no treatments for rabies, so prevention is very important for animals as well as humans. It is important to get vaccines for the domestic animals and for humans, if they are at risk (ex.
