Rabies is a viral disease that dogs and other animals can suffer from.
Rage is a term that has its etymological origin in the Latin word rabies . It is a viral disease that certain animals suffer from and that can be transmitted to humans or other species through a bite , since the virus is inoculated through saliva.
Rabies infection is caused by a virus family known as Rhabdoviridae . Once the organism is infected, the animal begins to develop inflammation of the brain that leads to death in the vast majority of cases.
Rabies transmission
Widespread throughout the world, rabies can occur in domestic animals such as dogs . If a rabid canine bites a man, the contact between the animal's saliva and the human's open wound causes the virus to enter the human body.
In addition to dogs, other rabies vectors include bats , cats , wolves , raccoons , and ferrets . The most common symptom of rabies is the continuous and copious secretion of saliva .
The symptoms
Those affected by rabies may also experience fever, fatigue, headache, nausea, swallowing problems, aggression , seizures and hallucinations. Once contagion occurs, symptoms can take up to three hundred days to appear.
On the other hand, it is important to note that the first symptoms can also appear between three and eight weeks after infection. One of the signs we must pay attention to to know if our dog has acquired this disease is the alteration of its behavior : aggressive animals can become tame, and vice versa. It is also common for them to isolate themselves and appear very nervous. In advanced stages, hypersensitivity to light and noise is expected, just as happens to people who suffer from migraines.
It should be noted that, to prevent the spread of rabies, authorities usually develop vaccination campaigns for dogs and cats, which are the most popular domestic animals. This vaccine protects the animal from the virus and, therefore, also humans.
Rage can be used as a synonym for anger.
Rage as anger
Rage is also a term used to describe anger or fury . In this case, it can be used to describe a wide range of anger intensities, ranging from moderate annoyance to uncontrolled anger ; In the first case it is possible to find it in sentences that exaggerate the sender's feelings , such as "I am very angry that he does not answer me, so I am going to surprise him at the door of his house" , while in the second there may be violence. excessive physicality, as shown in the sentence "He hit him with rage, until he fainted."
A basic difference between anger and rage is the development time of each one. Anger usually arises spontaneously in the face of a situation or action considered annoying or inappropriate in a given context; It is an almost instantaneous reaction to things that we don't like or that make us uncomfortable. Anger, for its part, can appear as a result of having experienced several events that are difficult to tolerate, as if it were an accumulation of anger.
For example, if a person cannot stand being called a certain way and a co-worker constantly does it to annoy him, it is likely that he will get angry the first few times, express his discontent and the scene will not escalate; However, depending on your temperament , after a while your anger may turn into rage and you may act uncontrollably, physically or verbally attacking the other with an apparently disproportionate intensity , although in reality it is not.