Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease which causes inflammation in the brain and is almost always fatal. Rabies, caused by the rabies virus, primarily infects mammals. In the laboratory it has been found that birds can be infected, as well as cell cultures from birds, reptiles and insects.[1]
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Rabies were featured in Outbreak, and is first mentioned as being a threat that Britain's royal corgis would never face, as the rabies virus was fully eradicated from Britain in 1922 by an intensive prevention campaign.[2]
However, the virus still exists in the United States and other countries across the world. Pets who managed to escape houses across America are now at risk of coming into contact with infected wildlife across the nation. The show then gave information about rabies starting with more than 7000 animals, about 90% of them within the wild, were annually infected with rabies in the time of humans. It shows the symptoms of the rabies when the virus strikes the nervous system and inflames the brain which causes death. Within the East Coast of Texas and in Arizona, humans once dropped oral bake vaccines every year by aircraft in hopes of suppressing the disease in animals such as foxes, skunks, coyotes, and raccoons.
The show then began the intense beginning of the rabies outbreak when the rate of infection increases to 30% over the next several years without people to carry out the vaccination programs. These animals were infected are domestic cats and dogs whom ventured out and bitten by the wild animals whom got infected with rabies before the segment ends with the explanation of John Anderson about the rabies and the symptoms calling it fury with a fact of some dogs infected with rabies are known to bite up to hundred animals.
300 years later, the pandemic is over; as domestic animals are now much less common, as well as the fact that the virus functions best in areas where animal populations are most dense, it has become less likely for outbreaks to occur, as the surviving animals and their descendants have spread out into the wild.
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- ↑ Wikipedia: Rabies in animals
- ↑ Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency, gov.