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

The latest research shows that about 30% of people infected with rabies will develop the disease within 1 month, and 60% will develop the disease within 2-3 months, which means that the vast majority of people infected with rabies will show symptoms within 3 months. If the bite is on the head or face, the incubation period may be as little as 7 days. In addition, the length of the incubation period of rabies is also related to the immunity of the infected person, the amount of invasive virus and other factors, but in any case, 90% of the people will be onset of disease in 3 months, and the incubation period of more than a year of the case is not more than 1% of the total.

The longest incubation period for rabies currently recognized by academics is 6 years, which is a report published by American scholars in 1991, and as for some other records with longer incubation periods, they have not been recognized by experts. Because of the long incubation period of the case, the doctor inquired about the condition of the patient's recollection as a diagnostic criterion, but because of the patient's recollection is too difficult to judge whether it is accurate or not, so these long incubation period of the documented cases can not be recognized by the scholars.

Of course, scientists have not denied that there are cases with extremely long incubation periods, but they are extremely rare and should not be publicized in such a way as to cause misinterpretation and panic.