Vampire bat attacks 500 people in the Amazon rainforest, 4 children died

PeruIn the village of Urakusa where the people of the northeastern Indigenous people Aguajun tribe live,RabiesVampire bat taking onChisui bat) Attacked more than 500 villagers, at least four children died.

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Vampire batRabiesIt is not unusual for South America to mediate, but as a route of infection to humans, it is common for dogs bite of vampire bats to bite people. Urakusa took the inspection after receiving this raid and found that many other mammals are suffering from rabies besides bats.

Urakusa is a village located near the source of the Amazon River near the Ecuadorian border in northeastern Peru, Peruvian hygiene authorities arranged emergency vaccines to respond to the situation, but some villagers refuse vaccines There seems to be one.

According to Jose Bustamente of the Ministry of Health in Peru, 97% of the 508 people bathed in the bat are already vaccinated and they are expected to be administered to the remaining people within a few days.

Some people think that the outbreak of rabies among vampire bats is the influence of deforestation of the Amazon, but local experts say that it is caused by the cold climate that is not in the year in this area.

Rabies is said to have a latency period of more than a few months if the rabies virus that invaded from the bite scarred arrives at the cranial nerve tissue and the part caught is far from the brain tissue. Neurological symptoms such as excitement, paralysis and mental confusion appear when it occurs, paralysis of cranial nerves and whole body muscles, unconsciousness, death by respiratory disorder. Approximately 50,000 people worldwide are dead each year by rabies now.