World Rabies Day is September 28
RABIES ICD-9 071; ICD-10 A82 (Hydrophobia, Lyssa) 1. Identification—An almost invariably fatal acute viral encephalomyelitis; onset generally heralded by a sense of apprehension, headache, fever, malaise and indefinite sensory changes often referred to the site of a preceding animal bite. Excitability and aerophobia are frequent symptoms. The disease progresses to paresis or paralysis; spasms of swallowing muscles leads to fear of water (hydrophobia); delirium and convulsions follow. Without medical intervention, the usual duration is 2–6 days, sometimes longer; death is often due to respiratory paralysis. Diagnosis is made through specific FA staining of brain tissue or virus isolation in mouse or cell cultures. Presumptive diagnosis by specific FA staining of frozen skin sections taken from the back of the neck at the hairline. Serological diagnosis based on neutralization tests in mice or cell culture. 2. Infectious agent—Rabies virus, a rhabdovirus o...
