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Rabies Rabies is caused by a scratch or a bite from an animal that has the rabies virus. Then you can prevent rabies by not going near animals that you do not know also, pets need to have the rabies vaccine. The symptoms of rabies are fever, headache, agitation, anxiety, confusion, difficulty swallowing, excessive salivation, and hydrophobia fear of water, hallucinations, insomnia, and partial paralysis. There is no current treatment for rabies but if an animal that has rabies you will have to get a series of shots to prevent the infection from taking hold. There is no current cure. A few interesting facts are that in the year 1990 one human got rabies, 1821 raccoons got rabies, but what surprised me the most was that more cats got rabies than dogs the numbers were cats 176 and dogs 148. These are the websites I got the info on [|www.mayoclinic.com/health] [|www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/index.html] Bibliography Rabies by Alvin, Virginia, and Robert Silverstien. Hillside, NJ     Enslow publishers 1991     Report done by. Andrew Gherlein