Can dog saliva get rabies when it enters people's mouths?

First of all, it is true that a sick dog kisses and eats the saliva of a sick dog, which will lead to rabies.

Or, strictly speaking, it should be stated that kissing a sick dog and eating saliva can all lead to rabies.

This must meet three conditions: the dog is a rabid dog; And under attack; You happen to have ulcers and other wounds in your mouth. If any conditions are not met, it cannot be transmitted.

Needless to say, what kind of mental state is the dog with rabies attack? How can I kiss such a dog?

Overlord is hard to bow? Tough bow to the bully?

In fact, there are many cases of rabies saliva infection. Kissing a rabid dog can cause rabies? Sorry, there are no relevant cases to verify.

Rabies, a disease with a mortality rate of 100%, is terrible and easy to cause panic.

Perhaps this sensational topic is easy to attract attention. Over the years, some people have persistently fabricated such rumors and finally let innocent dogs lie down.

In fact, although rabies is 100% fatal, it is also 100% preventable and controllable.

A few countries in the world have been successfully extinct. Epidemic extinction has been achieved in more countries (only sporadic in bats and other wild animals).

Before the war in the Middle East, WHO was confident that rabies would become another major disease that was eliminated by human beings after smallpox-which also shows that the prevention and control of this disease is not difficult.

China is one of the four regions with the worst rabies epidemic in the world, with an annual incidence of about 800 people. Compared with the base of more than one billion people, this figure is not high-there is no reason to panic at all.

Of course, even if the probability is lower, no one wants this to fall on their own heads. This is the source of panic.

Alas, in Europe and America, where there are many dogs, rabies has long been extinct.

Trapped by rabies, we are busy "preventing" by abandoning and slaughtering pet dogs.

The media, which should have played an active role, are still taking pains to steal concepts and artificially create panic about pets.

In addition to "kissing a dog will lead to rabies", there are also the following "rabies common sense", which are well-known in China.

But in fact, they are all "made in China", which is a specious pet-fearing legend.

Healthy dogs can also carry viruses?

Authenticity: 30%

It is reported that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of China has conducted an epidemiological survey in areas with high incidence of rabies, such as Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou. "The brain carrier rate of apparently healthy dogs is about 15%, which poses a great threat to human health."

In a special program of the news channel, the host Shui Junyi quoted an official figure that "2-6% of healthy dogs carry rabies virus".

These official descriptions make people extremely panic and smell dogs turn pale.

However, in fact, whether a healthy dog can carry the virus is a focus of academic controversy. At present, the international mainstream opinion (including China CDC) is "No", and only a few independent scholars in the United States think "Yes".

But this argument is purely academic. Even scholars who think that healthy dogs can carry viruses, no one thinks that healthy dogs can be infected with viruses (carrying is not infection). The case record in this respect is zero.

(quoted from vector-borne diseases and animal infectious diseases)

Rabies incubation period is as long as 20 years?

Authenticity: 10%

Rabies has a long incubation period. How long is it exactly? Every once in a while, we can see a related report that a patient was bitten by a dog many years ago and is now ill. The longest incubation period of this kind of report is directly to 20 years.

News like this is really scary. I was bitten when my memory was blurred when I was a child. Will I suddenly get sick and die one day?

In fact, according to the data of the World Health Organization, the incubation period of rabies virus is 2 weeks to 3 months, and 99% of rabies virus attacks within one year, and it is extremely rare to exceed 1 year.

Among the convincing cases at present, the record with the longest incubation period comes from a Filipino immigrant in the United States, which lasts for 6 years. The longest record in China is 1 1 year, but the credibility of this case is low, and secondary infection is not excluded.

Twenty years? This story is very interesting.

Of course, rabies is terrible. Once it breaks out, 100% will die. Moreover, China is one of the regions with the worst rabies epidemic in the world.

Therefore, be careful of rabies and don't take any chances. Once bitten, don't look up any "suggestions" on the Internet. Please go to the hospital for vaccination immediately. Three types of contact also require passive immunity.

However, the virus did not fall from the sky. In the face of disease, dogs are our comrades-in-arms, not our enemies. If they weren't sick, they wouldn't infect us.

We should guard against it with our dogs, instead of being "afraid of dogs" for no reason, or even abandoning our dogs and fabricating rumors like "being close to dogs leads to rabies".

No longer misreading rabies may be the first step for us to eliminate rabies.