Rabies: 120 Years After Pasteur 1/2

This movie was possible thanks to the support and collaboration of rabies experts facing the disease in endemic area and at international level. It was shot in Asia (Thailand) and Africa (Burkina Faso and Senegal) and intent to show the daily life of school-age children in close contact with potentially rabid animals. It is interspersed with interviews of rabies specialists describing the disease, its burden, post-exposure measures, vaccination, rabies initiatives and perspectives. The main objective is to raise the global awareness on rabies and educate the lay public about rabies risk and its prevention, making a movie accessible even for people with no scientific knowledge.

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• Documentary

[Tillie26]

@CiaoBello21 Actually, it's the uncontrolable spasms of the throat that causes the hydrophobia or even aerophobia

[Sebragnarok]

this will help my presentation I have tomorrow thx

[KgirlHasTheWits]

Very good documentary! Apparently there have been only six people who survived rabies after symptoms began, and that's out of thousands :(

[CiaoBello21]

Much to popular belief, rabbies does not cause hydrophobia but rather that once an infected individual shows symptoms of the virus, then their tissues such as their throat and lungs becomes so swollen that it is too painful to drink water thus causing them to avoid drinking water.

[tac62184]

@fenriz218 very first symptoms. It means the virus has reached the brain

[fenriz218]

"once the symptoms appear the disease is always fatal"

Does is mean the first symptoms like headache, nausea, joint-pains, etc or those it refere to later symptoms like hydrophobia?

[partylolking]

Informative. ;)

thx