Question

Rabies, a viral disease in mammals, is not currently found in the British Isles. If you were in charge of disease control there, what practical approaches might you employ to keep the rabies virus from reaching these islands?

Short answer

The banning of importing mammals and their vaccination is considered a practical approach that should be taken by disease control in charge of preventing rabies virus from reaching the group of islands, such as the British Isles.

Step-by-step solution

Mammalogy

The scientific branch of biology that concerns studying mammals' structure, taxonomy, function, and evolutionary history (vertebrate animals nourishing their young ones with their milk) is called mammalogy.

The several mammalogy branches are morphogenesis, physiology, systematic mammalogy, population dynamics, evolutionary ecology, behavioral mammalogy, and ecology of mammals.

Examples of diseases transmitted from animals to humans are rabies, cat scratch disease, blastomycosis, Q fever, anthrax, and plague.

Rabies

The zoonotic viral disease that mainly affects the brain, such as the nervous system of people, and is transmitted through saliva from animal bites is called rabies.

The signs and symptoms related to rabies are agitations, drinking difficulty, bizarre behavior, confusion, nervousness, pain at the bite site, sore throat, depression, fever, and suffering from intense thirst.

Examples of rabies prevention are washing animal bites with water and soap, medical care, monitoring the dog, and post-bite treatment.

Rabies virus

The practical approaches for the prevention of acute viral disease (such as rabies) include dog vaccination to protect them from affecting with dangerous rabies disease, so that vaccinated dogs do not transmit disease to humans because they are the carriers of rabies disease.

The British government must ban the mammals' import so that affected mammals cannot reach the island and transmit disease.