How much do you know about rabies, one of the most common infectious diseases, in spring? Rabies is a very strange disease, and World Rabies Day is celebrated on September 28 every year. The typical symptom of rabies is fear of water. When drinking water, the patient will have spasms in the swallowing muscles and cannot swallow the water, even if the mouth is extremely thirsty, but also afraid to drink water, so also known as hydrophobia. The World Health Organization reports that rabies is widespread throughout the world, with 55,000 people dying from rabies worldwide each year, or one death every 10 minutes. China is the second largest rabies country in the world, with more than 3,000 deaths from rabies each year. Rabies is a zoonotic, acute infectious disease with a very high mortality rate, and once it develops, death is basically certain. According to the World Health Organization, 95 percent of human rabies worldwide is caused by dog bites or scratches, while the Chinese Ministry of Health gives a figure of 85 percent (and about 5 percent for cats, and a few for wild animals). A simple way to identify a “rabid” dog: Manic state, fearful expression, tongue exposed outside the mouth due to paralysis, drooling all the time. The focus of rabies prevention: According to the relevant provisions of the World Health Organization, rabies vaccination is, in principle, the earlier the effect of vaccination, the better, preferably within 24 hours of injection, more than 24 hours of vaccination, as long as the vaccine stimulates the body to produce sufficient immune antibodies before the onset of disease, the vaccine can be effective, therefore, replenishment of the vaccine is effective. Rabies is prevalent mainly in the densely populated southeast of China as well as in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Experts at the Queen Seva Bhabha Memorial Institute in Thailand, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Pathogenesis and Prevention of Rabies, gave the answer to the question of vaccine use that only 3 doses of vaccine should be given to patients (on the same day, on the third day, and on the seventh day), and that these 3 doses are sufficient for future prevention. Dogs are friends, not supposed to be transmitters of diseases.