High score bounty!! I was bitten by a dog while wearing pants

Although this kind of contact is not very dangerous, in fact, the key is to see if the dog has rabies virus. If you are around a dog that has had rabies, it is best to get a shot. I've had a similar experience before, I didn't get the rabies vaccine, and I'm still doing well after a few years.

Here's what I found, I hope it will help you.

1 Healthy dogs do not carry the rabies virus and therefore do not transmit rabies. Therefore, the instructions for various rabies vaccines clearly state in the article "Vaccination Target" that it is used for people who have been "bitten or scratched by rabies or other mad animals", rather than referring to healthy dogs. If you have a lot of rabies in your area, you can also get a pre-exposure vaccination as a precaution, which is another matter.

Some people may say that we check the rabies virus positive rate of 10 or 30, it is a "superficially healthy" dog, it may be in the incubation period or the early stage of the disease, and foreign books also say that dogs and cats detoxify their saliva just a few days before the appearance of neurological symptoms? This statement is also difficult to explain. Even in endemic areas, it is unlikely that such a high proportion of dogs are infected with rabies, which does not explain the fact that rabies occurs sporadically.

2 If you are scratched and bitten by your own or neighbor's healthy dog or cat, you can rest assured that it is still healthy and healthy for 10 days. Some questioners said that he or she had been exposed for months or more or had been scratched and bitten by a dog or cat, and that the animal was fine, so there was no need to worry and not to be vaccinated. If it is a stray dog or the dog that bites you has run away and does not know the condition of the dog, please go to the CDC immediately for consultation.

3 Based on now reliable studies and published by the World Health Organization, the accepted maximum incubation period is 6 years. In the past twenty or thirty years, the book has not been accepted because of the lack of rigorous evidence. In the future, it is also possible for rabies patients to prove that their incubation period is more than 6 years, but only if there is conclusive evidence and it is recognized.

Some people ask questions that have little to do with the incubation period, but whether you have been bitten by a rabid animal?

4 Finally, please remember the fact that there are almost no reports of rabies in our cities, especially in large cities, and even if there are, only a handful. But this is not to say that the dogs and people in the city have special immunity, but because the current conditions do not meet the ecology of rabies, in layman's terms, there are no conditions for the transmission of rabies.

This is one of the important principles of epidemiology. In fact, any place that can create an ecology that is not conducive to rabies like a city is to keep dogs in yards and get vaccinated against rabies. It can be done with hard work.

You'd better go and fight, or you won't know if you're dead that day.