According to Yan Zhao***, on December 21, a woman in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, said that she was accidentally bitten by a rat, and then bit the rat's head in retaliation.
The person said that he went to the doctor afterwards and had been injected, and the person was fine for the time being.
The woman posted an emergency case printed with Wuxi Xishan People's Hospital, which showed that she was 18 years old, was bitten by a rat on her right hand, and bit the rat back, complaining of a wound at the corner of her lip, and asked for rabies and tetanus**. It will be 23:12 on December 21.
On December 22, the netizen told reporters that the person concerned was his roommate, and when the rat ran into the house and was caught by the roommate, the rat bit her, and the roommate felt that he was provoked and bit the rat's head, leaving two tooth marks. Afterwards, my roommate went to the doctor, and the doctor also said that he had not seen a precedent since he started his career, and he had been vaccinated against tetanus and rabies. He said that his roommate was fine now and warned her not to do so in the future.
According to Changchun Disease Control: Theoretically, as mammals, rodents can definitely be infected and spread rabies virus (such as marmots), but because of the small size of common mice, if bitten by a rabies dog or large animal, it is almost impossible to survive, so the risk of rats transmitting rabies is negligible, and rabies transmission between rodents has not been found in nature. Don't think that rats are born with the rabies virus.
More than 99% of rabies in humans is transmitted by dogs, followed by cats, bats and other animals. So far, there have been no reported cases of rat transmission of rabies to humans.
So, a rat bite is only theoretically possible to contract rabies, but it has never actually happened, so there is no need for rabies vaccination.
Rats bites do not transmit plague, and only flea bites on rats can lead to infection with Yersinia pestis. However, plague is also like hemorrhagic fever, there is the concept of an epidemic area, and rats outside the epidemic area do not carry the plague bacillus on their fleas.
Infection with haemorrhagic fever in humans is mainly due to contact with or inhalation of rat secretions containing the virus, and there have been no known cases of rat bite infection. Therefore, it should not be assumed that a rat bite requires hemorrhagic fever vaccination. Even if you do get the haemorrhagic fever virus from a rat bite, it is too late to get the haemorrhagic fever vaccine because not all vaccines are suitable for emergency post-exposure vaccination.
Properly handle rat bites. Hemorrhagic fever can have an incubation period of 7 to 14 days from infection to onsetIt takes about 2 weeks for the hemorrhagic fever vaccine to be given to the production of antibodies. Therefore, it is difficult to prevent and treat hemorrhagic fever after being infected with hemorrhagic fever and then injecting hemorrhagic fever vaccine. The correct approach should be to go to the hospital in time to standardize the treatment of the wound, observe for two weeks, if there is a fever, cold symptoms, timely hospital treatment, do your best to move the first pass forward.
Comprehensive Yan Zhao *** Xiaoxiang Morning News, Jiupai News, Changchun Disease Control.
*: Morning News.