Rabies Vaccination Is Important, Residents Are Reminded That Vaccines Can Be Obtained In Veterinarians

JAKARTA - Veterinarians emphasize the importance of implementing anti-rabies vaccination in pets to prevent rabies transmission, a disease that can be transmitted from animal to human.

"Only vaccinations can prevent rabies, because it is transmitted through a bite," said Sunita, a veterinarian who practices in Banjar Sasih, Gianyar, and Canggu in Badung Regency, Bali, Sunday, June 18, was confiscated by Antara.

Anti-rabies vaccination services, he said, can be obtained at veterinary clinics and animal vaccination facilities provided by local governments.

"Rabies vaccination can be done once a year," he said.

In addition to ensuring that pets get anti-rabies vaccinations, he said, residents should not release pets in order to avoid rabies transmission.

Animals that can transmit the rabies virus include dogs, cats, and monkeys.

Sunita explained that animals infected with the rabies virus have symptoms, including fear of light and water, suddenly alone, excessive saliva, aggressive and fierce, and like to bite the surrounding objects.

Infectious rabies-contagious animals, according to him, can transmit the rabies virus to humans through a bite or friction on the wounds on the human body.

"If there is a wound, then it is melted, it can also catch rabies," said Sunita.

Humans infected with the rabies virus generally experience symptoms such as fever, weakened muscles, tingling or feeling burned in the area of bite, pain or headache, nausea and vomiting, confusion or feeling threatened without cause, hyperactivity, and experiencing hallucinations, insomnia, and difficulty swallowing.

A girl in Buleleng Regency died of rabies on Tuesday, June 13.

Head of the Buleleng Health Service Sucipto explained that the child was bitten by his pet dog about a month ago and did not immediately receive medical treatment afterward.

The Bali Provincial Health Office noted that during 2022 there were 34,858 cases of rabies-contagious animal bites and 680 of them were cases of bites from rabies-infected dogs.

According to data from the Health Office, among the cases of animal bites that transmitted rabies that occurred during that period there were 22 that caused death.