RABIES WEEK CELEBRATION(POSTER ART COMPETITION)by Bal krishna Pandey | 22-09-2019 18:31 |
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       On the occasion of World Rabies Day 2019, We are celebrating Rabies week to make public awareness about rabies which is very important for human as well as animal welfare.We have a list of programs to do on this week. Already on 20th september 2019, national poster art competition was successfully organized at Agriculture and Forestry University, Chitwan, Nepal. Nepal Veterinary Students' Association, AFU was the organizer. Total 24 participant from different colleges were present at the program. Beautiful poster art with a great messages were successfully presented. After poster art competition, powerpoint presentation program was conducted to convey some important negelected facts about rabies and why and how can we be responsible as a veterinary student. Being program coordinator, I want to give heartily congratulations and thanks to all the helping hands. RABIES FACTS Rabies is a viral disease that affects the central nervous system. Rabies can infect any warm-blooded animal. There is no cure for rabies, and it is almost always fatal. Once clinical signs occur, an infected animal usually dies within five days. The only way to test for rabies is by examination of the brain tissue of a dead animal. There is no way to test for rabies infection in a live animal. Rabies virus is spread by contact with the saliva of an infected animal. Transmission is usually through a bite wound, but the disease has been known to spread through a scratch or an existing open wound. The incubation period — the period of time between exposure to a disease and the onset of clinical signs — for rabies can vary greatly. The typical incubation period is three to eight weeks, but it can be as little as nine days or as long as several years in some rare cases. The incubation period depends on several factors, including the location of the entry wound, the severity of the wound and the animal¡¯s immune system. In general, the farther the wound is from the brain, the longer the incubation period will be. An infected animal can only transmit rabies after the onset of clinical signs. |
