Man was bitten by a bat while sleeping and tested positive for rabies virus and died without being vaccinated

According to the local health department, Krobb discovered when he woke up in mid-August this year There is a bat on his neck. Subsequently, the bat was captured by government agencies.

After a virus test on bats, it was found that rabies The poison test was positive. But even so, Krobb still refused to be vaccinated. About one month later, Krobb began to suffer from neck pain, headache, difficulty in arm control, numbness of the fingers, and difficulty speaking. In the end, he died.

The Illinois Department of Public Health stated in a statement that the rabies in Klobb was the state’s first human case of rabies since 1954.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once humans are infected with the rabies virus and the virus enters the brain, it will begin to cause symptoms, which may take weeks or months. time. The symptoms at first look like flu, but then they may evolve into more severe neurological symptoms.

Most bats do not have rabies, but some bats carrying rabies virus can bite or enter human eyes by biting humans or body fluids. Spread the virus, but touching bats, or bat feces, body fluids, etc., is unlikely to be infected with rabies virus.

It is understood that rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by rabies virus. It is zoonotic and is more common in dogs, Carnivorous animals such as wolves and cats are mostly infected by bites from sick animals. The clinical manifestations are peculiar hydrophobia, fear of wind, pharyngeal muscle spasm, progressive paralysis, etc. Because of the prominent symptoms of hydrophobia, this disease is also known as hydrophobia.

Rabies virus belongs to the genus of Rhabdoviridae, a single-stranded RNA virus. Animals spread the virus by biting each other. Rabies in our country is mainly spread by dogs. There is still no effective treatment for rabies, and the fatality rate of people suffering from rabies is almost 100%.