Rabies By: Mahdi Mahdi

It came from dogs, Cats, other animals that bite.

The disease is zoonotic, meaning it can be transmitted from one species to another, such as from dogs to humans, commonly by a bite from an infected animal.

A zoonosis is an infectious disease that is transmitted between species (sometimes by a vector) from animals to humans or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis or anthroponosis).

The rabies virus infects the central nervous system, ultimately causing disease in the brain and death

Rabies causes about 55,000 human deaths annually worldwide.[3] 95% of human deaths due to rabies occur in Asia and Africa

In the US, animal control and vaccination programs have effectively eliminated domestic dogs as reservoirs of rabies.

In several countries, including Australia and Japan, rabies carried by terrestrial animals has been eliminated entirely

While rabies had once been eradicated in the United Kingdom, infected bats have recently been found in Scotland.

Almost all human deaths caused by rabies occur in Asia and Africa.

The rabies virus travels to the brain by following the peripheral nerves.

The incubation period of the disease is usually a few months in humans, depending on the distance the virus must travel to reach the central nervous system.

My Summary and links content/uploads/2012/09/corrected.jpg I’ve got all my Info from Google and wikipedia content/uploads/2012/09/corrected.jpg My project is about Rabies and where it came from Well it all came from dogs and other animals that bite.