rabies

     

Rabies (Latin: rabies, "maness, rage, fury" also "hydrophobia") is a viral zoonotic neuroinvasive disease that causes acute encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) in mammals. In non-vaccinated humans, rabies is almost invariably fatal after neurological symptoms have developed, but prompt post-exposure vaccination may prevent the virus from progressing. There are only six known cases of a person surviving symptomatic rabies, and only one known case of survival in which the patient received no rabies-specific treatment either before or after illness onset.

Trivia about rabies

  • You might have this disease also called hydrophobia if you've been bitten by an infected dog
  • In 1885 the first successful vaccine for this was tested on a boy who had been bitten by a dog
  • In 1885, a French boy who'd been bitten by a dog got the first inoculation against this
  • In the novel Old Yeller catches this viral disease from a wolf's bite
  • ...as lyssa or as canine madness
  • Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S.
  • Mere contact on scratched skin of saliva from an animal with this disease, aka hydrophobia, can transmit it
  • In 1997 raccoons passed skunks as the most frequent vector of this disease
  • After being bitten by a dog in 1885, Joseph Meister became the first person inoculated against this
  • Cujo had this viral disease
  • The unusual behavior of the movie dog Cujo is the result of this disease
  • Puppy will need to be vaccinated against this disease, also called hydrophobia

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