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zheroes (m)
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Rabies or hydrophobia is a disease that affects animals and humans. The infection is transmitted in the saliva when a rabid animal bites another or a man. The infection spreads by the nerves until it reaches the spinal cord and the brain. This is slower than spread by the bloodstream. If a person is bitten on the face the incubation period is fourteen days approx., for a bite on a leg it may be several months before symptoms appear. But once symptoms appear the infected person or animal always dies. The main symptoms are terrific cerebral excitement and fury, spasm of the throat and inability to drink, and generalised convulsions.
A popular fallacy was that the infected person barked like a dog - this may have been the result of 'hawking' i.e. the persistent spitting out of saliva that couldn't be swallowed.
i hope you are not infected?
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