There haven’t been as many rabies-related deaths in the United States in a decade as last year: Five people died of the fatal disease, according to the US Office of Epidemiology (CDC). The CDC also reports that some patients were unaware they had the infection or refused life-saving vaccines.
Three of the five cases were infected with bats. The agency stressed that these tragic deaths could have been prevented.
One patient, an 80-year-old Illinois man, refused a life-saving vaccine because he was afraid of vaccines in the life of the world. An Idaho man and a Texas boy were not vaccinated because they believed the bats did not harm their skin.
As Ryan Wallace, a rabies expert at the CDC and author of the report, noted, in all three cases, patients either did not take a serious risk of coming into contact with bats or did not realize the severity of the disease.
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Two deaths occurred in early 2021. A Minnesota man was bitten by a bat. He received rabies vaccinations, but due to an undiagnosed immune system problem, the treatment was not effective. The other victim was bitten by a crazy dog in the Philippines and died in New York after returning home.
rabies a rabies lesion It is caused by a virus that attacks the central nervous system, causes encephalitis, and is usually fatal to animals and humans.
In most cases, the disease is transmitted from infected animals to humans, and in the United States, humans have contracted rabies in recent years.
Infected people die a few weeks after symptoms appear if they do not receive all five vaccinations within two weeks of infection.
About 60,000 people are treated for rabies in America each year. In 2019 and 2020, no deaths from rabies were reported in the country. The last time was in 2011 to this degree victim of disease.
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