Only 30 to 40% of the victims develop the chronic symptoms (the ones that lead to heart failure). Considering how most of them are people in extreme poverty, it shows that you gotta have really bad health in order for the virus to cause real damage to your organs (the acute symptoms should be easy to detect, specially the chagoma that forms on the place where you or your pet got bitten). If anything the acute symptoms are dangerous for babies and puppies, since the diarrhea and vomiting could lead to them getting dehydrated. |