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rabies (hydrophobia) Viral disease of the central nervous system. It can occur in all warm-blooded animals, but is especially feared in dogs due to the risk of transmission to human beings. The incubation period varies from a week or two to more than a year. It is characterized by severe thirst, although attempting to drink causes painful spasms of the larynx; other symptoms include fever, muscle spasms, and delirium. Once the symptoms have appeared, death usually follows within a few days. Anyone bitten by a rabid animal may be saved by prompt injections of rabies vaccine and antiserum.
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RABIES: PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE POST EXPOSURE TREATMENT VACCINATION, CAUTION AROUND WILDLIFE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...highlight the need to remain vigilant against rabies. A rabid dog was identified in Onslow...requiring seven exposed persons to receive rabies post exposure treatment; a ferret tested positive for rabies in Buncombe County, the first ferret ever...
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Rabies: Risks, recognition, and prophylaxis
Magazine article from: Formulary; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; INTRODUCTION Rabies and its relationship to the bite of a "mad dog...in Mesopotamia more than 4000 years ago, in which rabies was identified as a cause of "wrongful death."3 Rabies encephalomyelitis (inflammatory disorder of the...
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Rabies Remains a Costly Public Health Threat, Says Jefferson University Virologist; While Raccoon Inoculation Program Continues in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere, Increasing Cases of Bat Rabies Raise Concerns.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 10/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...AScribe Newswire) -- No one in this country gets rabies anymore. It's a Third World problem. Everyone...vaccine for people. Most of us hardly think about rabies at all. Maybe we should start. Rabies, an ancient viral disease that conjures up...
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Rabies in ferret badgers, southeastern China.(DISPATCHES)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Rabies is an acute encephalomyelitis caused by rabies or rabies-related viruses. Although dogs are the main reservoir worldwide, all mammals are believed to be susceptible. When rabies is widely distributed, affected wildlife may constitute...
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Rabies vaccine shortfall spurs tighter restrictions.(Infectious Diseases)
Magazine article from: Family Practice News; 9/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...care providers who prescribe postexposure rabies prophylaxis must confer with public health...doses of the vaccine because the only rabies vaccine available is in limited supply...Prevention has announced. An update on rabies vaccine availability posted on the CDC...
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Rabies cases a continuing threat to global public health: ancient disease still a modern problem.
Magazine article from: The Nation's Health; 11/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...one of the world's oldest diseases, rabies continues to surprise the vigilant public...person every 10 minutes, die due to rabies, even though such deaths are preventable. Like many diseases, rabies' mortality burden falls disproportionately...
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Rabies: a growing threat. (includes related article)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 10/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Rolando Barian of Edinburg, Texas, died of rabies. He was bitten by a dog. The rabies virus was most likely transferred from a coyote...dog, because coyotes are the main carriers of rabies in Texas. Rabies is not just a problem in Texas...
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RABIES: FACTS FOR PREVENTION YOU SHOULD KNOW FEDERAL DOCUMENT CLEARING HOUSE, INC.
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 1/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Amador County, Calif., a 49-year-old man died of rabies. Although there was no history of a bite wound from...probable source animal for this particular case of rabies. The word rabies conjures up images of a dog foaming at the mouth and...
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Rabies risk among travellers
Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal; 2/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; How do you get rabies? Rabies is a preventable, deadly disease transmitted through contact with...mouth, or scratches that break the skin. Although extremely rare, rabies may occur after exposure to aerosolized rabies virus in a cave filled...
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Rabies in a beaver -- Florida, 2001.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 6/7/2002; 700+ words
; ...Department of Health (FDoH) laboratory for rabies testing. Park rangers contacted the Alachua...the investigation of this case of animal rabies. Mammals that exhibit aggressive or other...November 27, the FDoH laboratory diagnosed rabies in the brain tissue of the beaver by using...
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Rabies Vaccine
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Rabies vaccine Definition Rabies vaccine is an injection that provides protection against the rabies virus that can be transmitted to humans via the saliva of an infected animal. Rabies is fatal in humans unless it is prevented with a vaccine...
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Rabies
Book article from: U*X*L Complete Health Resource
RABIES DEFINITION Rabies is a rare but serious disease caused by a virus. The virus that causes rabies is carried in saliva. It is transmitted when an infected animal bites another animal. Rabies affects humans and other mammals. Another name...
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rabies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
rabies or hydrophobia , acute viral infection of...successful vaccine in 1885. Since then, human rabies has become rare in the United States and...used in an effort to stem an increase of rabies cases in the United States and Canada that...
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Animal Bites
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...In these cases, a doctor should examine the wound. Rabies Rabies is a viral disease that affects the nervous system. A rabid animal, whose saliva contains the rabies virus, can infect another animal or a person by biting...
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Negri, Adelchi
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Medical Society on 27 March 1903, of the rabies corpuscles, now known as “...undertaken to clarify the etiology of rabies and performed on Golgi ’ s advice...Negri found that in animals suffering from rabies, certain cells of the nervous system...
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