Rabies

[saamohod]

Prayers don't help, vaccines do.

[fenriz218]

I come from the south of Germany, an area that has been plagued by rabies for centuries. It's forest area, so it's very rampant among deers, foxes, squirells, etc.

Naturally, there are no dogs on the street and ppl have vaccinated their dogs, so there really is no effect on the human population itself.

Knowing very little about it, I was wondering: are there taboos involving (like with bovines animals) in India, which would prevent ppl from vaccinating or, if necessary, culling them off?

[troizy]

so rabies is actually a deadly desease, thats all

[Serdikan]

Rabies is the deadliest desease known to man. And it shouldn't be here. It belongs in the archives of history and the world has to find a way to put them back in there.

[thelearner60]

@Serdikan like Smallpox was put in.

[backstage2008]

They need to get the vaccine over seas befour meor people die and suffer.

[jeyanthross]

The vaccine is available - just that the family did not think it was necessary to have it

[thelearner60]

@jeyanthross ignorance kills a case point here.

[thelearner60]

Places like India many of the poor there can't even aford the vaccine, if they do get bitten by a rabid animal.

[jeyanthross]

@thelearner60 - The vaccine is available free of cost at Government Hospitals in India.

[thelearner60]

So why are people still dying in large numbers in India from rabies, if the vaccine as you say, is free for poor people?

[jeyanthross]

Rabies deaths are still not common. Main cause is ignorance and a little carelessness. Sometimes the vaccine is out of stock etc.

[thelearner60]

@jeyanthross So why is thousands upon thousands are dying of it in India every year then? It can't be as rosy as you think it is. Either your one of the middle class in India who live different universe to poor of India or you don't actually live in India because you'd realise that statement you made would be crap.

[jeyanthross]

@thelearner60 Yes. India has the highest incidence of rabies and rabies death. And the reason is not financial. It's to do with awareness, education about rabies, carelessness and the fact that most dogs are not vaccinated.

Lorazepam is widely available in India. Rabies vaccine is widely available in the country - but there are regions where medical care is scarce.

A lot of the deaths are in areas where the vaccine is available. THAT is the worrying fact.

[ArabPeninsula]

hydrophobia rabies in India

[thelearner60]

@ArabPeninsula the disease there is endemic with all the wild and stray dogs they've got roaming about.

[Evilraccoon05]

this is very sad :(

[Evilraccoon05]

video itself is a pointless. without description or comments you can understand nothing what`s goind on there. apparently, can you drink or not depends on how severe are these hydrophobic spasms and not all patients become crazy. but can i understand rightly that such aversion to water and drafts, associated with painful throat spasms, are exactly symptoms of rabies. so if infection is suspected you can simply make it sure... just offer him water and fan his face and watch the reactions, right?

[parks2000]

B4 he died did he start acting crazy ?

[backstage2008]

most likey .

[morgandrim]

Not necessarily, parks2000. There are two or three stages to the disease. There`s the prodromal - which everyone has. Then there comes one or other or both of two other stages. There is the `dumb` stage, typified by malaise, docility, etc. Then there is what`s called "furious rabies." When the animal goes beserk, that`s furious rabies. Terrible thing, they say !

[ereugene13]

yeh most of people who has rabies..needs to be in jail.. coz they can hurt you.. they just w8 for him or her to die..in jail.. theyre also afraid of water.. :( more like hydrophobia or w/e you spell it.. sadly its a silent killer.. :) it make take years.. or just months..depends on where you get bitten.. bow. xd

[piccalily]

Is this in Kerala? Or Tamil Nadu? This sounds like Malayalam to me. That must have been frightening for him.

[backstage2008]

india

[mona3891]

what country is this??

[carriebuk]

Why wasn't he heavily sedated?

[jeyanthross]

This was at the first visit to the doctor. The video description tells you the details

[mhoktaban]

why he is not restrained? his arms should be tied, right?

[Nibbit]

He probably was right after this video (ofc, no way to be sure). It looks to be right before he starts loosing muscle control and such.

[megs97216]

I DO NOT SEE ANY IV'S. DID HE RECEIVE ANY ATIVAN...DID IT HELP W/THE x2PHOBIA? WHAT ABOUT MS FOR PAIN?

[thelearner60]

Its India the third world they've got none of those things they need in some of those hospitals.

[jeyanthross]

@thelearner60 - interesting but baseless conclusions!! Lorazepam has been available for many years in India. I wonder where you get your information from.

[thelearner60]

If your such an expert where do get your information from then Wekipedia?

[jeyanthross]

I'm a doctor. That's why I know about rabies and it's treatment and ultimate prognosis.

[thelearner60]

Are right so how do I know your doctor because I could say I was a brain surgon but I'm not. And anyway more doctors are f@@king arrogant tossers anyway.

[jeyanthross]

What you say and the language you use says more about you than about anyone else - anyway the discussion is going off topic. i guess you have some personal experience that makes you angry with doctors. Maybe some day we could meet and sort out these differences.

[thelearner60]

@jeyanthross Your patronising idiot and I wouldn't to meet you. I'd rather become a Jehova Witness than have you treat me.

[jeyanthross]

Well, you certainly have some fixed ideas.

Have a nice day.

[Tom238]

I feel bad for you child, You will always be in my prayers!

[Undrdogofcorona]

no you can drink very small portions, VERY smal but it still hurts you

[markboylepotb]

Hang on, if this kid had Rabies, how come he was able to drink? That's one of the first things you are unable to do once symptoms start - no way would he have been able to keep anything down.

[jeyanthross]

mark - if you notice he couldn't drink the water. He desperately almost attempted it but couldn't get to do it. He had a severe spasm of his muscles of swallowing even before he tried to drink it.

[parks2000]

how did the boy get rabies

[parks2000]

what is aerophobia ?

[jeyanthross]

Aerophobia is fear of air. This boy got it from a dog bite

[parks2000]

ok i no it's a fear of air , does air blowing on the cause spasms ?

[jeyanthross]

Yup parks - it does. This child was even scared of switching on the fan

[turner60]

Yes it does even fans are not used in rooms where rabies patients are in because they induce muscle spasms.

[billiejean1977]

You said he gotten bitten by a dog a couple of months ago and after MONTHS got symptomatic rabies???? I thought that happens within days. Please explain???

[albionangel]

no, it takes a few weeks to a few months to become symptomatic. in rare cases people have gone a year before getting symptoms.. but the vast majority start getting symptoms in two weeks to a month of being bitten/infected.

[thelearner60]

It depends on where on the body you got bitten or scratched by a rabid animal. If you got bit on the face, the head, arms or even the hands the time for the virus to travel, via the nervous system, is much shorter, thus the incubation period is not very long months than years. Where as if the bit happens to be on the leg or foot then the virus will take much longer too reach the brain. That's why some people don't develop rabies until well after year from when they were bitten.

[thelearner60]

That's right even seeing the liquid brought on the painful muscle spasms, which is classic hydrophobia caused by viral brian damage and also paralysis of the central nevous system of the patient.

[parks2000]

poor kid .