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The symptoms of rabies can be a fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea and fatigue, irritability, excessive movements of agitation, confusion, hallucinations, aggressiveness, bizarre or abnormal thoughts, and muscle spasms.
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In 1271 their was the first large rabies outbreak, 30 people died from this outbreak
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In 1752 their was a rabies epedimic started in England and due to that everyone was told to shoot any dog they see on sight. http://galleryhip.com/person-with-rabies-foaming.html
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In 1763 900 dogs were killed in just one day in France due to fear of getting rabies from them since there had already been several reported outbreaks in France. http://osp.mans.edu.eg/elsawalhy/Inf-Dis/Rabies.htm
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Rabies was fatal to humans and animals without a cure, but Louis Paseur created a vaccine to prevent this from happening. http://www.itsukraine.com/level-of-rabies-increased-tenfold-in-ukraine.html
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It is believed that we got rabies here in America from explorers from Europe that were traveling with their sled dogs and groups of animals. This disease was first contracted in Canada and then it spread from canada to America and was diagnosed as rabies in 1920.
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This year 675 dogs and four humans died from the disease rabies
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In 1952 their was 300 reported cases of rabies in Pennsylvania
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800 cases of rabies were discovered in Maryland in 1983.
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83 children in Angola died from the disease rabies because their was a shortage on vaccinations and some kids werent brought to the hospital quick enough http://prezi.com/hosc_lvvgisj/rabies/
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Their was over 32 cases of rabies in animals and at least a dozen people had to get treated for rabies.
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You can get rabies by getting bit by an animal that has rabies because their saliva gets into the bite wound which transfers rabies to you. The second way to get rabies is if you get the saliva of an animal with rabies into a cut or wound you already have.
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7000-8000 animals are found each year in the United States with rabies
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Rabies kills 55,000 people world wide each year, 30-60 percent of the people are kids under the age of 15 dieing from dog bites
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