Maladies

All mammals, including humans, are susceptible to rabies. The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system, calling forth aggressiveness, personality changes and paralysis in the affected animal. Infection leads in the end to death. In Switzerland rabies has been practically eliminated through the practice of setting out food containing the vaccine for foxes.

There is a vaccine against rabies. Kittens can be vaccinated at four months. Protection is recognized when the last vaccine is at least one month old and no older than one year.