Land Animal Bite
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Land Animal Bite Overview
A person attacked by a land animal should attempt to identify the type of animal, the time of the injury, and the nature of the attack.
- Animal bites can occur on any dive or wilderness trip.
- Unprovoked animal bites are particularly dangerous. The possibility of a cat, dog, or wild animal having rabies is high, especially in less-developed countries.
- Bites from humans, dogs, and cats often lead to severe infections. Puncture wounds are very dangerous because they inject bacteria deep into the tissues.
- Bites to the hand, wrist, foot, or joint are very dangerous and require immediate medical attention.
- Infection is a major concern with bites because a local wound infection may develop in as little as 24 hours.
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Rabies Overview
Rabies is a disease humans may get from being bitten by an animal infected with the rabies virus. Rabies has been recognized for over 4,000 years. Yet, despite great advances in diagnosing and preventing it, today rabies is almost always deadly in humans who contract it and do not receive treatment.
Rabies can be totally prevented. You must recognize the exposure and promptly get appropriate medical care before you develop the symptoms of rabies.
- Where rabies is found: Human rabies is quite rare in the United States. Only 27 cases have been reported in people in the United States since 1990. Yet in some areas of the world (for example, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America), human rabies is much more common. The incidence of rabies in people parallels the incidence in the animal kingdom. The great strides that have been made in controlling the disease in animals in the United States and in other developed countries ...
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Because many animal bites are never reported, determining the exact incidence of animal bite wounds in the United States, let alone the world, is difficult.
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