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Raúl Urquizo stated that the vaccine that is applied after the bite of an infected animal is effective “if it (is applied) in a short time, on the third day (of the attack), for example.”
The dean of the Medical College of Peru (CMP), Raúl Urquizo Aréstegui, pointed out that if a person is attacked or bitten by a dog, a cat or another animal such as a bat (in rural areas), they must immediately go to a doctor. health facility to determine if it is a case of rabies in order to receive the corresponding vaccination and medical care.
“If you go early you can be saved because you will receive your vaccines, specific immunoglobulins against rabies and you could be saved. But if you arrive too late like the case of the lady (from Arequipa), then it was an irreversible, inevitable death,” said the surgeon in the program. Things as they are.
About dose quantity
In that sense, he stated that the vaccine that is applied after the bite of an animal infected with rabies is effective “if (it is given) in a short time, on the third day (of the attack), for example.”
“(The patient) has to receive several doses, four doses, of anti-rabies immunoglobulins. There are establishments. In Lima we have the Anti-rabies Center. The problem is going early,” he said.
“When they come too late, as in the case of Arequipatwo months after (she was bitten), then what the Ministry of Health “This would have a fatal ending,” he added.
On the other hand, Urquizo Aréstegui specified that the contagion of rabies is not transmitted from person to person.
“There has to be a bite, a wound or salivation because that is the way the virus is, it is transmitted and attacks the central nervous system,” he said.
2023-10-19 03:31:30
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