Bitten by a dog, a year after an incubation period of rabies from up to several decades

20-year-old young man Henan pan, this two-day high heat, sweat, headache, fear of water, wind, small hands stack will cause his throat muscles spasm, Oh. The expert consultation, this once being misdiagnosed as suffering from "encephalitis" or "tetanus" youth, a year ago had been a "healthy" dog bites, finally was diagnosed for rabies.

Ditan Hospital infections Department Director Zhaohong heart said, is not necessarily a rabid mad dog bites or "dogs" (no clinical signs of poison the dog and the rendering of clinical symptoms before the outward detoxification of dogs), with the cat and rat virus, animal bites, latency can be a few days, or years, even decades. Once bitten by an animal must be wound cleaning, injection of rabies vaccine.