Rabies

Rabies Health Effects
by CDC
Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The vast majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year occur in wild animals like raccoons

Pets : Rabies, Rodent-borne, Flea and Tick-borne Diseases, Mycobacteria
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Rabies, a deadly viral disease that infects the brain and spinal cord in animals and people, is transmitted through the saliva of a rabid animal, usually by a bite. Vaccines to help prevent rabies are available for dogs, cats, horses, ferrets

Forms of Rabies
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
There are two forms of rabies. Furious rabies largely affects the brain and causes an infected animal to be aggressive or excitable (the very picture of the foaming-at-the-mouth, mad dog image people have of rabies).

Rabies: Vaccines
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Rabies is on the rise again in America, after years of decline. Vaccines are the only line of defense for humans exposed to the disease. The biggest challenge in this country is controlling the disease in wild animals.

Rabies Questions and Answers
by CDC
How can I protect my pet from rabies? There are several things you can do to protect your pet from rabies. First, visit your veterinarian with your pet on a regular basis and keep rabies vaccinations up-to-date for all cats, ferrets, and dogs.

Vaccine from Rabid Rabbits
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A small dog raced wildly along the sidewalk, a black and white blur among children on their way to school. It stopped only for an instant - just long enough to bite a boy on the ankle - and then was gone.

Mad Dogs and Friendly Skunks - Controlling Rabies
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
One of humanity's oldest and most feared diseases is a form of viral encephalitis transmitted by the saliva of infected animals. First described in a Mesopotamian tract dating from 1800 B.C., the illness was known to the ancient Greeks as lyssa, meaning

Rabies: Fear, Prevention
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Rabies - its name comes from a Latin word meaning to rage - has struck fear in people for centuries. An Italian physician, Girolamo Fracastoro, discovered that rabies was a disease fatal to humans as well as animals in the 16th century

Preventing Rabies
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Learn how to prevent this deadly disease in your pets and in yourself. Rabies is caused by a virus that attacks the brain. The virus enters the body through the saliva of an infected animal, usually by a bite, but it can also be transmitted if infected

Bats and Rabies
by CDC
Rabies is an infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. People get rabies from the bite of an animal with rabies (a rabid animal).