I've been bit by a squirrel..should i take the vaccination for rabies??

that was a baby squirrel...I've been bit by a squirrel..should i take the vaccination for rabies??
Some squirrels carry Bubonic Plague. You really need to go to your county health department.I've been bit by a squirrel..should i take the vaccination for rabies??
As a precaution, yes hon. Have a good day.
i learned that for safety, yes. Consult your doctor immediately in case. Just monitor the squirrel. If u cant monitor it, here are some signs and symptoms of rabies. It usually appears after four days of the bite. Here are some symptoms:


* irritability


* excessive movements or agitation


* confusion


* hallucinations


* aggressiveness


* bizarre or abnormal thoughts


* muscle spasms


* abnormal postures


* seizures (convulsions)


* weakness or paralysis (when a person cannot move some part of the body)


* extreme sensitivity to bright lights, sounds, or touch


* increased production of saliva or tears


* difficulty speaking
Quit grabbing it's nuts, then you wouldn't have this problem...
did it attack you? or were you harrasing it? if it was


fighting to get away from you, you should probably just


clean out the wound with a good disinfectant.
yes
yes.
Transmission


Approximately 7,000 cases of rabies in animals are reported each year to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Raccoons are the most common carrier of rabies in the United States, but bats are most likely to infect people. Almost three quarters of rabies cases between 1990 and 2001 came from contact with bats.





Skunks and foxes also tend to carry rabies, and a few cases have been reported in wolves, coyotes, bobcats, and ferrets. Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies.





Because of widespread vaccination programs in the United States, transmission from dogs to people is very rare. Outside the United States, exposure to rabid dogs is the most common cause of transmission to humans.





An infected animal carries the rabies virus in its saliva and can transmit it to a person through biting. In rarer cases, an animal can spread the virus when its saliva comes in contact with a person's mucous membranes (moist skin surfaces, like the mouth or inner eyelids) or broken skin such as a cut, scratch, bruise, or open wound.





After a bite, the rabies virus can spread into the person's surrounding muscle, then travel up a nearby nerve to the brain. Once the virus infects the brain, it can cause severe, possibly permanent injury.





Signs and Symptoms


The symptoms of rabies typically appear about 4 days after the bite occurs. But in rare cases, symptoms don't show up for more than a year.





One of the most distinctive signs of a rabies infection is a tingling or twitching sensation around the area of the animal bite. It is often accompanied by a fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea, and fatigue.





As the infection progresses, someone infected with rabies may develop any of the following symptoms:





irritability


excessive movements or agitation


confusion


hallucinations


aggressiveness


bizarre or abnormal thoughts


muscle spasms


abnormal postures


seizures (convulsions)


weakness or paralysis (when a person cannot move some part of the body)


extreme sensitivity to bright lights, sounds, or touch


increased production of saliva or tears


difficulty speaking


In the advanced stage of the infection, as it spreads to other parts of the nervous system, other symptoms may develop:





double vision


problems moving facial muscles


abnormal movements of the diaphragm and muscles that control breathing


difficulty swallowing and increased production of saliva, causing the ';foaming at the mouth'; usually associated with a rabies infection
do not worry very much...but you should have disinfected it immediately....but for now u should just make a visit to a hospital and ask them :D
See your doctor and ask his/her advice. They will know better than anyone else would.





Most vaccines will not protect you after you have been exposed. A vaccination is a preventive treatment not curative.





Although Rabies i have found, is an exception. If your doctor decides to treat you for Rabies, which he might do just in case, you will receive five doses given immediately, then 3rd day following exposure, 7th, 14th and 28th day following.





Being bitten by anything (even a person) leaves you open to disease and infection. Did the squirrel appear to be infected by rabies? Not that that matters. I'm sure your doctor will treat you for it anyway. He/she may also put you on prophylactic antibiotics.





The most common signs that you can pick up in a glance are frothing at the mouth, muscular twitching and a generally unkempt appearance (stopped grooming).