-Rabies is a zoonotic disease and the mortality rate is almost 100% when it develops.
When the virus enters the body through a break in the skin or mucous membrane, it primarily attacks nerve cells in the brainstem and cerebellum, where the important respiratory centers of the body are located, and can rapidly destroy nerve tissue in the body. The virus can rapidly destroy the body’s nerve tissue and spread from central to peripheral nerves, causing spasms in the swallowing and respiratory muscles, resulting in fear of water, difficulty swallowing and breathing, and ultimately leading to respiratory and circulatory failure and death.
This is what we know about rabies, but now, with the rabies virus now in our Salamonsa, it is unheard of and the current rabies vaccine does not work at all to prevent it.
What is different from what we perceive as rabies, and what is more frightening, is that based on the last few days, we can be sure that a person who has been bitten by a cat and then bites a healthy person will also infect the healthy person with the rabies virus, with an incubation period of only 24 hours at most, and the infected person will behave no differently than a cat bite. To put it bluntly, an infected person who bites and has a seizure will also attack a healthy person and will be equally aggressive and very infectious, a vicious cycle that, if left unchecked, will leave no healthy person in the entire city.
-I recommend the culling of all dogs and cats in Salamonsa, although so far no abnormalities have been detected in the dog, we cannot rule out that it will also mutate immediately! All infected people are already controlled and quarantined to avoid three injuries!
Micaela opened her eyes wide, looked up at the familiar ceiling above her and exhaled heavily, but her heart grew heavier….
The voice from the dream a moment ago was an important conclusion from yesterday’s meeting.
Today is the fourth day of panic in Salamonsa, with the death of the first people bitten by the cats, who lost their heads and bit their relatives and friends, infecting them one after another:
There are no healthy people in town….
Micaela shook her head hard to shake off that horrible thought….
In the last few days, she has seen too many colleagues who are normal for a few minutes and then suddenly have a fit of rage in the next few minutes, and their subordinates….
Sitting up, lifting the sheets and bending her knees, Micaela looked at her left ankle, where there were two small purple teeth marks….
The restlessness in the heart is infinitely….
She too was bitten by a cat and, although she was vaccinated, the doctor said, and it proved, that Salamonsa rabies was different from the perceived one, or rather, an improved version, and that the existing vaccine was simply ineffective….
So, will she become an irrational lunatic like the infected, who bites people she sees and ends up dying of respiratory failure?
And Carlos?
What about Mike?
What about Mom?
Micaela hugged her knees, her face sinking into the crook of her arm, too scared for words, and suddenly remembering that last night she seemed to have called Carlos in a daze, she turned immediately in search of her phone.
On the phone, Carlos sent a message.
It’s two photos, a selfie of him with Mike at the airport, the ticket and five words:
-Micaela, I’m coming.
Micaela’s heart clenched, no, you can’t come, Salamonsa is in such a dangerous situation, and, what if she herself gets trapped and can’t recognize them and can’t control it and bites them?
Micaela was so anxious that she rushed to pick up the phone and was unable to….
Carlos is on the plane…
What to do, what to do…
The phone rang and Micaela hurried to look to see that it was Lluvia, who had been calling several times a day after it was confirmed that those people had been driven crazy by the cat bites….
Micaela picks up the phone and Lluvia’s voice rings:
-Moya, are you okay?
There was a careful groping in her voice….
Micaela sighed and voiced the fear she felt in her heart:
-I’m fine for now, I don’t know if I’ll be okay for a few more days…..
Lluvia, on the other end of the line, relieved to hear her dejected tone, followed by anxiety, said the same as yesterday:
-Don’t panic, your body is resistant to different drugs, that rabies may not kick in, look, those who were bitten by cats around the same time as you, or even after you, have had seizures, you’ll be fine…. Didn’t you tell me before that you were fine after that vicious sister of Anlandana’s drugged and poisoned you several times?
Micaela smiled and said kindly:
-Yes yes yes yes, I’ll be fine, your hospital hurry up and investigate if there is a way to free those people, I need to get up, we’ll talk tonight.
Lluvia didn’t let the phone hang up and asked anxiously:
-Didn’t you tell your husband? Don’t let Mr. Nicolas and Nilson tell him yet, and let me tell him that he’s going to be pissed off when I’m not around at a time like this and don’t tell him!
Micaela froze a little and answered without enthusiasm:
-She’s on her way and I’ll pick a time to tell her what’s going on here.
After saying that, Micaela was disconsolate and happy?
Yes, Carlos knew there was danger here, how could he not come if he was in danger?
She didn’t want Carlos to be on the edge of his seat on the road….
After a few more words of mutual comfort, Micaela hung up the phone and got out of bed when a knock sounded on the door, knowing it was her mother, Micaela took a deep breath, tried to settle her face and turned to open the door.
Yerma stood in the doorway, relieved to see Micaela.
-Mom…
Yerma entered and, seeing the slight uneasiness on her daughter’s little face and knowing what she was thinking, took her by the arm and reassured her:
-Moya, don’t get your head hot, isn’t your body resistant to different drugs? Maybe it’s okay at all? Or what if the cat that bit you is healthy?
Micaela never dreamed that one day, as she does now, she would desperately hope that the poison Nilson fed her, the poison that kept her from leaving Salamonsa, would drive away this fit of rage….
Nodding, Micaela, who did not dare to tell her mother the worst, also reassured her:
-Well, don’t worry too much, Mom, I’m sure I’ll be fine.
After breakfast, mother and daughter set off one after the other, one towards the Echave Group and the other towards the Council House.
Micaela got into her car and drove off slowly, looking at the pedestrians walking along the road, looking around, fearful of being bitten by infected cats and people, all wearing thick cotton coats, when it was not yet so cold….
The whole of Salamonsa is on edge and, if the situation is not brought under control, the town will have to be closed, schools have been closed and people are forced to run away….
Most cat owners are reluctant to execute them, and she thinks it is cruel to slaughter all the dogs and cats….
The main thing she wants to do today is to encourage those who have been bitten by people and cats, but have not yet suffered an attack, not to risk it and come to isolate themselves so as not to spread….
Micaela leaned back against the back of the seat, closed her eyes and, half determined, said to her assistant and bodyguard, who was driving in front of her:
-Ariana, in case I get infected and have a seizure, you must subdue me, knock me out, lock me up and don’t let me hurt anyone…