What to do if Bitten by a Dog or Other Animal


When bitten by a dog or other animal, wash the wound with disinfectant water or with soap and water and treat as any other wound. The next thing to do is to determine whether or not the dog or
other animal is mad or rabid.

The animal should be tied up where it can be observed and where it cannot bite others. If it has rabies it is a sick animal and will die within 10days. In such a case the one bitten should go at once to any nearby hospital or health care center where the person will be treated.

This treatment should be given before any symptoms of the disease of rabies develop in the body of the person, for after the symptoms develop the treatment can no longer help again. If anything happened and the animal runs away and the person that was bitten cannot find out whether or not it is rabies, the only safe procedure is to take the course of treatments.