Do healthy dogs and cats carry rabies virus?

It is possible to be poisonous. But it does not get sick and does not spread.

Rabies virus is acquired and carried, and only sick dogs and cats have the ability to transmit rabies virus.

Therefore, healthy dogs and cats cannot be infected with the rabies virus. However, if you are injured, it is still recommended to take an injection, after all, the rabies mortality rate is 100%, and the rabies virus has a long incubation period, and there are no obvious symptoms of virulence.

I got my fifth shot at the end of December... It's still a safe point.,It's a fatal disease anyway... After the shot, I went to the city epidemic prevention station to do a crazy vaccine test, and if there are antibodies, it proves that there is nothing wrong... Also, the Crazy Vaccine Test can only be done on Friday mornings to have blood drawn, and it is not accepted at other times. The results came out in the afternoon, and I heard that it was more than 30 yuan...

This kind of thing maybe, let's do a test after the injection.

*Cats can carry the rabies virus**.

Cats themselves are free of rabies.

Introduction: The causative agent that causes rabies. The shape is elastic, the nucleocapsid is helical symmetrical, and the surface has an envelope containing single-stranded RNA.

It can infect all kinds of warm-blooded animals such as wolves, foxes, cats, cats, cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, etc. Rabies is the main source of infection, and people get sick from bites from rabies and other animals that carry the virus.

The rabies virus enters the human body and reaches the central nervous system along the peripheral afferent nerves, so there is a high chance of developing the disease in patients with large and deep wounds on the head, neck, upper limbs, etc.

The infected person is in a state of high excitement at the time of illness, and is accompanied by fever, headache, fear of wind, numbness of the limbs, difficulty swallowing, once drinking water, it causes severe cramps and other symptoms, and the phenomenon of hydrophobia appears, so it is also called hydrophobia. 3 5 days later, the patient turned into a state of paralysis, coma, and finally died of respiratory and circulatory failure.

Rabies is a serious threat to people's lives, so it is necessary to kill wild dogs, strengthen the management of domestic dogs, and vaccinate animals in endemic areas against veterinary rabies. If a person is bitten by a rabies, the wound should be cleaned immediately and thoroughly with 20% soapy water, detergent, amine-containing compounds, or water. After washing, rabies virus immunization serum is injected as soon as possible.

First of all, by nature, no animal is born with the rabies virus, unless it is genetically (e.g. a big cat has a kitten when it has rabies), so kittens are generally free of the virus.

However, for example, a cat picked up outside may carry the rabies virus, or your cat may be infected when it comes back from a play. But it's all acquired.

In addition, although the rabies virus has an incubation period, it is deadly, so if your cat has never been out of the house since he was a child, and has not been in contact with other cats and dogs, and you have raised it for many years, then you can basically be sure that it is virus-free.

However, just in case, domestic pets should be injected.

Does not carry rabies virus. Cats are not like dogs, like to gather in groups, but are lonely by nature, like to be alone, and are the least likely to be infected with rabies virus. Most cases of rabies infection in cats are caused by dog bites.

Cats do not carry the rabies virus, and cats can only be infected with rabies virus after they have come into contact with wild cats or wild dogs.

Cats can carry the rabies virus. The hosts of rabies virus are cats, canids, and raccoons. In addition, the rabies virus is transmitted through the saliva of the pathogen through the digestive tract and respiratory tract.

Therefore, after the owner and the cat come into contact, wash your hands with soap and water in time, and after the cat's saliva touches your own mucous membrane, go to the local epidemic prevention department for vaccination in time.

If cats themselves had them, they would have been extinct. Because after all, the mortality rate from rabies is 100 percent. The other is that humans will not allow them to live.

The vast majority of rabies in cats is due to dogs. Because stray dogs are the most vulnerable to cats.

It may be carried, because the incubation period of the rabies virus is very long, so if you are scratched and bitten by a dog, you must be vaccinated against rabies within 24 hours and follow the doctor's advice.

Normal cats and dogs have rabies virus. They. Those vaccines are given every year. They have bacteria on them. Virus-bearing. Rabies vaccination is mandatory.

Of course, it is possible to carry the virus.

Cats generally do not carry the rabies virus, but they are vectors that carry the virus, and although they are rare, they can carry it. Therefore, it is necessary to vaccinate cats regularly against rabies and avoid contact with unvaccinated cats to avoid the risk of contracting rabies.

Cats are carriers of rabies virus, although cats generally do not carry rabies virus, especially relatively clean pet cats, but there is still a very small chance of carrying, which is why we want to vaccinate cats against rabies.

After the rabies vaccine is given to the cat, there is also a shot every year to consolidate. Cat owners may be scratched by cats, and cats that have been vaccinated against rabies are generally fine.

If the cat has not been vaccinated against rabies and scratches someone, in addition to cleaning and disinfecting the wound, it is best to go to the rabies epidemic prevention center for vaccination within 24 hours.

1. The rabies virus will not be produced in a cat out of thin air, let alone in the mother's womb, nor will it be latent in the cat's body for a long time (more than half a year). Therefore, a healthy cat cannot transmit the rabies virus to other animals and humans.

2. Cats infected with rabies virus will die within 3 to 7 days after the onset of the disease. From the onset of the disease (up to 3 days) until the onset of illness and death, a total of about 3 10 days, during which cats can transmit rabies virus through saliva.

3. The transmission of rabies depends on saliva, so the main mode of transmission is "bite", and cases of scratching are rare.

Therefore, if the cat has never been out of the house and has not been in contact with sick cats and dogs, there is basically no need to worry too much after being bitten or scratched.

4. If the suspicious cat or dog bites (i.e., exposed), the wound should be cleaned and disinfected immediately, and the biting cat and dog should be isolated for observation, and if the cat or dog remains healthy during the 10-day observation period after the exposure, it can be concluded that the cat or dog is not infectious.

Note: Be sure to pay attention to the role of wound cleaning, due to the poor external viability of rabies virus, rinse the wound thoroughly with soap and water for more than 15 minutes, which can kill most of the virus.

Pet cats at home generally do not carry rabies virus, because the incubation period of rabies virus on the body of animals is about 1 week, and basically one week will get sick and die. Moreover, dogs carrying rabies virus will have more obvious symptoms and are easier to distinguish, so foreign countries will be injected with rabies vaccine in combination with observation method in terms of animal scratches or bites. If the dog that caused the bite does not die of illness for about 7 days (conservative 10 days), it means that there is no rabies virus, and the person who bit can stop receiving subsequent vaccines.

In China, no matter how much, it is a complete course of treatment, so the consumption of rabies vaccine in China is not ordinarily large. In addition, now domestic pets are required to be vaccinated against rabies from an early age, and the probability of being infected with the rabies virus itself is also very small. As for stray dogs, it's hard to say.

As long as you have rabies, regardless of whether you have it or not, cats and dogs have the virus. But it can only be transmitted to others during the onset period, because the rabies virus is strictly neurotropic, and when it is not sick, there is no rabies virus in the saliva or peripheral blood of cats and dogs.

The probability of a cat getting rabies is only 1 in 1 million. Cats infected with rabies generally have these symptoms: obvious changes in temperament, apprehension, fear, and nervousness.

Cats infected with rabies will enter the excitement period after the early stage of the disease, showing restlessness and impermanence, at this time they can no longer distinguish between the living and the acquaintance, and will appear in a crazy state of attacking people. If a domestic cat is in a closed state and does not have contact with cats and dogs outside the domestic environment, the chance of getting rabies is even smaller.