By RACHEL BOWMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:53 EST, 26 November 2023
UPDATED: 09:12 EST, 27 November 2023
Rabies is more common in bats.
Symptoms of the disease in humans include fever, headache, excess salivation, muscle spasms, paralysis and mental confusion.
There is no specific treatment for rabies, and once symptoms appear, it is almost always fatal, but a vaccine can prevent infection.
People who are feared to have been exposed to rabies are given Rabies Post-Exposure Prophlaxis, a vaccine and antibody treatment.
They will receive a dose of man-made rabies antibodies to fight the infection as soon as they are exposed, as well as four doses of a rabies vaccine over two weeks.
The vaccine contains a small spike protein from the surface of the rabies virus in order to prepare the immune system to fight the real virus should they become infected.
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