55,000 people each year die from rabies.

Originally posted by Evanzsayz
reply to post by nixie_nox

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55,000 people each year die from rabies.

That is really really hard to believe...55,000 people a year to RABIES!?!? Yeah right rabies is not that bad of a virus unless you never get it treated.

Key facts

Rabies occurs in more than 150 countries and territories.
Worldwide, more than 55 000 people die of rabies every year.
40% of people who are bitten by suspect rabid animals are children under 15 years of age.
Dogs are the source of 99% of human rabies deaths.
Wound cleansing and immunization within a few hours after contact with a suspect rabid animal can prevent the onset of rabies and death.
Every year, more than 15 million people worldwide receive a post-exposure preventive regimen to avert the disease – this is estimated to prevent 327 000 rabies deaths annually.

Key facts
Rabies occurs in more than 150 countries and territories.
Worldwide, more than 55 000 people die of rabies every year.
40% of people who are bitten by suspect rabid animals are children under 15 years of age.
Dogs are the source of 99% of human rabies deaths.
Wound cleansing and immunization within a few hours after contact with a suspect rabid animal can prevent the onset of rabies and death.
Every year, more than 15 million people worldwide receive a post-exposure preventive regimen to avert the disease – this is estimated to prevent 327 000 rabies deaths annually.

Originally posted by Corruption Exposed

Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by MentorsRiddle

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Rabies is still the top contender. It has a 99.9% fatality rate, only one person has ever survived intact.

55,000 people each year die from rabies.

Funny how a virus is only scary when it is new.

Only 1200 have died from ebola since the 70s.

edit on 1-8-2012 by nixie_nox because: (no reason given)

Stop spreading disinformation.

Rabies is a fatal infection of the central nervous system acquired through the bite of a rabid animal. The 100% fatality rate of this infection when left untreated, and its near global distribution (estimated 60,000 human fatalities per year worldwide), makes rabies one of the most significant and dread diseases. While endemic dog rabies is of major concern worldwide, rabies control programs have reduced the number of dog rabies cases in the United States to less than 200/year. However, a large reservoir of rabies exists in wildlife animals (racoon, skunk, bat and fox).

In the United States, 35 cases of human rabies have been reported between 1990 and 2003. Infection is prevented in humans by injection of rabies immunoglobulin followed by a series of injections with rabies vaccine. However, to achieve this success, it is estimated that the cost associated with rabies control exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

www.wadsworth.org...

It's only fatal when left untreated, but is easily treated in humans even in advanced stages. The treatment may be expensive but it's easily cured.

Ebola on the other hand CANNOT be treated:

There are currently no proven Ebola treatment options that can kill the Ebola virus. Ebola treatment focuses on providing relief of Ebola symptoms as the body fights the virus. This is called supportive care.

Death occurs in 50 to 90 percent of Ebola cases. Ebola research scientists do not understand why some patients are able to recover from Ebola hemorrhagic fever and others are not; however, it is known that Ebola victims usually have not developed a significant immune response to the Ebola virus at the time of death.

I don't understand why you are trying to minimize the seriousness of this outbreak.

The only reason that rabies deaths outnumber ebola deaths is because rabies is much older and much more prevalent, and third world countries do not have access to rabies treatment. If an ebola outbreak were to happen in a populated city I'm guessing it would be pretty ugly.

Care to provide any links to your comments?

Sorry I forgot to add link to the ebola portion of my post, but that has now been corrected.

edit on 1-8-2012 by Corruption Exposed because: link

Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Evanzsayz

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Third world countries don't have the money to treat rabies.

YouTube Link

edit on 1-8-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)

He contracted rabies from the saliva of a sick stray dog he took in and kept in his shed.

Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse

But staff at Mulago hospital talking of moving a body using protective clothing. Feeling we're not being told the whole story #Ebola

Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse

Official line at Mulago hospital in Kampala: "no suspected cases of #Ebola here." What happened to the people in isolation? "Sent home."

Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse

#Ebola: centre for disease control says only 5 cases confirmed through tests. Is this contained or only just beginning. Trying to find out

Originally posted by xXxinfidelxXx
reply to post by MentorsRiddle

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What makes you think Ebola is, or ever was natural? In it's true natural state, it was something classified as Ebola Brahma, which only infected cattle in Africa and South America. How is it that a bovine disease jumped over to humans? The same goes for Bird Flu, H1N1, Swine Flu, etc.

Originally posted by my1percent
reply to post by Wrabbit2000

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Hi, saw your post and wanted to tell of my experience,
I went to Thailand about 20 years ago and was bitten by a dog , i was advised to have rabies shots( rabbid freak:lol and yeah i had to go to the hospital there a few times and have shots . Then when i got home i had to have more shots freaky!!! .Also took a lot of money even just getting to the hospital by tuk tuk and bus. By the way anyone know how long i am protected from rabies? The ebola sounds scarey hope they get it under control . Cheers Oh yeah when i got my shots they had apparently just moved on from giving needles in the belly button Cheers

edit on 2-8-2012 by my1percent because: (no reason given)