Rabies is common in summer
The average daily outpatient volume of dog injuries in Kunming No. 1 Hospital reaches 80 cases
News from our newspaper (Reporter Huang Yu) Recently, in Kunming, Yunnan, many citizens reported that human rabies vaccines are particularly in short supply. After being scratched or bitten by dogs and cats, they can't get rabies vaccine in many places. The reporter learned from the Kunming Third People's Hospital that at present, the average number of new bite patients per day is about 50. In addition, the number of outpatient visits for dog injuries per day is about 80, which is an increase of about 20% to 25% compared with the previous month. Moreover, dog owners are mainly bitten, and the proportion of children injured is 35%. Among them, holidays and weekends have become the days with high incidence of dog injuries.
Wu Junhua, deputy chief physician of the Department of Trauma Surgery of the Second People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, analyzed that the weather is getting hotter because many family members are at home because of the epidemic, and the children have not resumed classes or have online classes at home. Some residents go out to walk their dogs, neither bring a rope to hold the dog, let alone wear a dog cover, and often bite passersby. In addition, the owner and the "dog" are too affectionate, and it is not uncommon for the cheek, nose and lips to be bitten in the process of provoke the pet.
Kunming Third People’s Hospital doctor Yang Yin said, “Due to the sultry weather and some animals are in estrus, they are more irritable, impulsive, and even aggressive. Cats and dogs scratching and biting are more common.” Yang Yin reminded, outdoors When encountering an unfamiliar dog, don't run away immediately, or scream loudly or stare at it, you can keep your arms in place and stand until it leaves.
Rabies is an acute zoonotic disease caused by the rabies virus. Once a person develops the disease, it attacks the central nervous system of the human body. The characteristic clinical manifestations are excitement, hydrophobia, photophobia, dysphagia, mania, etc., and eventually die from respiratory and circulatory failure. Once onset, the progress is very fast, the course of the disease is mostly 3-6 days, rarely more than 10 days.
"Today I received rabies vaccine, immune protein, and tetanus. After listening to the doctor's introduction, I realized that the injection of the vaccine alone is not safe for my wound." Mr. Hei from Kunming City has a wound of more than ten centimeters on his hand. Long, bleeding a lot.
The reporter learned from interviews that people in Anhui, Shanxi, Kunming and other places reported that there is a shortage of human rabies vaccines, and rabies vaccines are not available in many places. According to media reports, since the beginning of this year, the CDCs in Luzhou, Nanchong, and Xingtai, Hebei have issued news, affected by factors such as the upgrading of production equipment of some manufacturers, the suspension of production for rectification, and the slowing down of approval by the China Institute for Food and Drug Control. , The supply of rabies vaccine is tight, and the local inventory is severely short.
"If there is a shortage of rabies vaccine, in the face of serious dog injuries, rabies immune globulin can be given priority temporarily." Wu Junhua said. "Albumin is a passive immunization agent. It starts to take effect from the moment it is injected into the body. Vaccines take a certain period of time. For example, rabies vaccines usually take effect on the 7th day after being injected into the body. "Therefore, even if the rabies vaccine is temporarily lacking, the public need not be overly nervous.