The incubation period varies greatly among individuals, but the majority of patients have an incubation period of about 1-3 months. The incubation period of rabies refers to the time from contracting the rabies virus to the appearance of clinical symptoms of rabies. A deeper wound after being bitten by a sick dog, or a wound with more nerves nearby, or a period when the patient is immunocompromised, leads to a shorter incubation period, which can develop in about 2 weeks, making the disease occur earlier. In the case of a minor bite, the incubation period can be 10-20 years. With rabies, the mortality rate is almost 100% because the rabies virus causes brain failure causing death by the time it reaches its onset. After being bitten by a dog, the wound should be thoroughly debrided, continuously flushed with soapy water to rinse away as much of the local virus as possible, and an early visit to a hospital or immunization station for rabies vaccination and rabies immunoglobulin if necessary.