Rabies
Rabies is a disease that causes inflammation of the brain in humans and animals. In general, rabies can lead to death or other severe complications. The incubation period of the virus is between one to three months, but it depends on your body structure. According to some studies, this virus can be passed when an infected animal bites or scratches a human or other animal.
The virus can also be spread when infected saliva comes into contact with an animal or human’s eyes, mouth, or nose. It is said that dogs are usually responsible for the spreading of this virus because they interact with humans more often than other creatures, but you can find this disease in bats, rodents, and raccoons’ as well.
Symptoms in humans include fever, violent movements, headache, insomnia, anxiety, partial paralysis and hallucinations, and animals can feel uncontrolled excitement, fear of water, paralysis, and loss of consciousness. Unfortunately, in some cases, these symptoms lead to death.
“The disease is most commonly contracted through a bite, although potentially it could be transmitted through a scratch as well,” says Gary Richter, MS, DVM, a veterinary health expert with Rover.com. “Although human exposure to rabies from a dog is uncommon, it’s worth noting since rabies is almost 100 percent fatal if the person is not treated immediately after exposure.”
If you want to prevent it, all you have to do is to vaccinate your pet as often as possible and don’t hesitate to see your veterinarian as many times as necessary.
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I was born with toxoplasmosis. My mom was pregnant with me and the disease (parasite) feeds on the retina of the eye and the brain.. I was lucky in that the parasite ate the retina in the right eye causing blindness and started on the left eye, (stopped) causing no damage but scars were there showing it started in the left eys. It stays dormate in the body and can reactive any time; that has occurred twice in my lifetime and doctors have been able to use a laser beam and kill the reacted cells. This disease can be carried onto my child but I have chosen to not have children to avoid this terrible disease. As stated it stays dormate in your body forever and they are now discovering that it causes cysts to grow on your vital organs such as lungs, kidneys. liver. etc. I have already found cysts on my kidneys so your certainly do not want to have this disease. It is a lifelong disease. I do not have cats and never wanted them.