Rabies (Latin: rabies, "madness, 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 more or less invariably fatal after neurological symptoms have developed, but timely post-exposure vaccination may put off 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.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Rock your Mind with Rabies
Posted by SN-UM at Sunday, July 06, 2008 Sunday, July 6, 2008Labels: Brain, Encephalitis, Health, Infection, Rabies
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