Rabies is a zoonotic disease that remains an important public health problem worldwide and causes more than 70,000 human deaths each year. The causative agent of rabies is rabies virus (RV), a ...

So, Callaway and Wickersham (at the time a graduate student in Callaway’s lab) set out to develop a tracer virus that could only establish an initial infection in a defined ... neurons with plasmids ...

A man infected with rabies ended his own life at a government hospital in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on March 11. The distressing incident, captured on video and now viral on social media, has ...

Following an investigation by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, and the Ohio Department of Health, officials determined the source of infection was the donated organ.

Even more worrying is the emerging, yet unconfirmed information that some of the animals could be carriers of the rabies virus. This makes even worse, owing to virulent nature of this disease.

Following confirmation of the infection ... post-exposure rabies vaccinations. Dr Srinivas Janam, a consultant physician at DHEE Hospitals, explained that the rabies virus belongs to the ...

It contains ready-made antibodies that neutralise the rabies virus at the wound site. It prevents the infection from spreading ... and cold chain logistics for proper storage and transportation ...