A man bitten by a rabid animal was doomed, no means could save him. Mention of the disease can be found in the earliest evidence - the papyri of ancient Egypt, Greek and Roman records, in the Bible. It was called hydrophobia or hydrophobia. Long before the discovery of viruses by a Russian biologistDmitry Iosifovich Ivanovskiy (1892) people knew this disease. Refusal of vaccination is a guaranteed death. To save a person's life can be immediate washing of the bite wound with soap and subsequent vaccination. Vaccination of pets and prevention of bites are effective methods in fighting this infection. Up to 99% of all cases of rabies virus in humans are the sources of infection of the dog. The disease occurs on all continents of the planet. More than fifteen million people annually undergo a course of vaccination after bites. More than 40% of them are children under the age of 15. According to the program of this association, by 2030 it is planned to eliminate the death rate of people from the rabies virus, the annual rate of which in the world is tens of thousands of people. How much the rabies virus lives in the external environment andhow can it get into the human body? There is a worldwide partnership United Against Rabies ("United against rabies") which includes organizations of public health of people and animals of different countries.
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