Many people may still think that the incubation period of rabies will be as long as 10 years or even 20 years. In fact, scientists at home and abroad have long agreed on this-in general, the incubation period of rabies is only 1-3 months.

The latest research report shows that about 30% of people will get sick within 1 month after being infected with rabies, and 60% will get sick within 2-3 months, which means that most people will have symptoms within 3 months after being infected. If the bitten part is the head and face, the incubation period may be only 7 days. In addition, the incubation period of rabies is also related to the immunity of the infected person, the amount of invading virus and other factors, but in any case, 90% people will get sick within 3 months, and the cases with incubation period of more than one year do not exceed 1% of the total.

At present, the longest incubation period of rabies recognized by academic circles is 6 years, which was reported by American scholars in 199 1. As for other records with longer incubation period, they have not been recognized by experts. Because for cases with long incubation period, doctors can only use the patient's memory as the diagnostic standard when asking about the condition, but because the patient's memory is too difficult to judge whether it is accurate, these recorded cases with long incubation period cannot be recognized by scholars.

Of course, scientists have not denied that there will be cases with long incubation period, but this is extremely rare, so it should not be widely publicized to cause misunderstanding and panic.