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RABIES
(Continued from page 1) without fear and the disease apparently makes them insensible to force; blows or gun shots do not frighten them. Rabid wild animals will enter farm premises and fearlessly attack dogs or humans. Another characteristic is the tendency of the animal to chew hard objects such as wood, rocks or even glass. Horses and cattle will be nervous and excitable and bite their stalls or mangers, sometimes hard enough to break their teeth. WHAT TO DO IF BITTEN BY • A DOG OR OTHER RABID
ANIMAL
Rabies is contracted chiefly through btes. Immediately, wash the wound with soap and water and encourage bleeding. This removes most of the caliva including the virus if the animal has rabies. See your doctor and let him decide whether further local treatment or vaccine treatment should be given.
WHAT TO DO WITH
SUSPECTED ANIMALS
Even if the biting dog appears to have rabies it should not be killed unless necessary, but should be locked up for a period'of seven days. This allows time for observation and prevents the animal’s escape if he does have #the disease. An animal with rabies always dies within 10 days of beginning symptons. During the early stages of the disease it is often impossible to determine whether or not animal is infected, but if it dies or is killed late in disease laboratory diagnosis is fairly easily. Do not shoot the animal through the head or
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