Re: Re: Rabies. A Few Statistics.

Originally from: Bill
                        
Totally agree on vaccination Jane, must see if Bertie and Bob need a booster.

I have a few statistics on rabies compiled by the Pasteur Institute as follows,

Incubation. Very variable, shortest recorded incubation 7 days, more commonly incubation is two months, sometimes three months, and less often up to six months. The longest recorded incubation period was in a vaccinated person where incubation was twenty seven months. (Had the Scottish bat-catcher been vaccinated?).

Being bitten does not automatically mean infection will follow. Depth of bite and number of bites will be a factor but on average only 33% of people bitten develop the disease.

Of those infected the chances of survival will depend to a great extent on where the patient has been bitten. Bites on the face 88% mortality. Bites on the hands 67% mortality. Bites on the legs 21% mortality.

Men are more likely to be bitten than women, children are least likely. Male animals are more likely to be the carriers, in the canine breeds by a 14:1 Ratio.

Bill.