Rabies is a Zoonotic infection that can be transmitted between humans and animals which has become a major public health problem. Among various zoonotic diseases, rabies and glanders cause millions of deaths. The overall prevalence of rabies cases which were around 48% is caused by dogs. Fatal neurological infection is caused by rabies in humans and other mammals, transmitted through the saliva of rabid animals via a bite or scratches.
Rodents such as rats, squirrels, and rabbits almost carry rabies and different wild animals like bats, raccoons, coyotes, foxes, and skunks are more likely to carry the disease. More than 200 diseases transmitted from animals to humans are through animal bites, arthropod vectors especially ticks and mosquitoes, air contact and direct contact transmission with the infected animal.
Rabies is a preventable viral infection of warm-blooded creatures frequently transmitted through the bite of an infected organism. Animals that have furious rabies may be very agitated or extremely aggressive towards different creatures, protests or even their own appendages. These animals ordinarily dribble exorbitantly, which can exhibit frothing at the mouth affected with rabies.
To stop the transmission of rabies, vaccinations are the best way and vaccinate animals like cattle, dogs and cats are against to rabies virus, and it may reduce the spread of Rabies virus.
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