If you want to know whether your dog has rabies, you can make a preliminary judgment based on clinical symptoms. First of all, dogs infected with rabies have no special symptoms during the incubation period. The incubation period is usually 1-3 months, and a few days or more than a year, so it is not possible to tell with the naked eye whether the dog has rabies at this time. Secondly, during the onset of rabies, dogs can be seen to be irritable and restless, extremely sensitive to light and sound, walk unsteadily, and have aggressive behaviors. If your dog is found to have the above symptoms, it is very likely to have rabies. It is recommended to stay away from it in time and report it to the relevant departments.
Since the incubation period of rabies varies, it can last several months or even a year in the elderly. Therefore, it is clinically divided into two stages, one is the manic type and the other is the paralytic stage. Therefore, we can observe whether the dog has two Determine the type of symptoms.
1. The duration of the manic type is 6-8 days, and it can last up to 10 days in the elderly. The paralytic type develops rapidly, has a short course, a very short excitement period or only mild symptoms, and usually dies within 2-4 days after onset.
2. In the early stage of the manic stage, the dog will be afraid of light, like the dark, slow to react, and will not listen to the owner's orders. Later, the dog will be violent and restless, confused, and will show symptoms such as irritating activities and distorted mouth and eyes.
3. During the paralytic period, dogs will salivate a lot, be unable to eat or drink, have convulsions, gradually become paralyzed in the hindquarters and limbs, sway or have difficulty moving, and finally die due to paralysis of the respiratory center and systemic failure.
Note: If it is rabies infection, once the disease occurs, the mortality rate is 100%, so prevention is very important, and whether the dog carries rabies virus cannot be detected. It will only be known after the dog becomes ill. Therefore, after the dog is three months old, the dog needs to be vaccinated against rabies virus regularly according to the vaccination procedure. Only in this way can the infection and occurrence rate of rabies virus be well prevented.