rabies

(noun)

a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death

Related Terms

Examples of rabies in the following topics:

  • Rabies

    • Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals.
    • Rabies literally means "madness" in Latin.
    • Treatment with human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) and rabies vaccine is highly successful if administered before the onset of symptoms.
    • Roughly 97% of human rabies cases result from dog bites .
    • Close-up of a dog's face during late-stage "dumb" paralytic rabies.

  • Negative-Strand RNA Viruses of Animals

    • This virus family includes pathogens—the rabies virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, potato yellow dwarf virus, etc.
    • Note the salivia dripping from the dog's mouth, a typical sign of a rabies infection.
    • The infection of domestic animals with rabies was common until the 1960s; now most instances of rabies-infected animals are found in the wild.

  • Cell Inclusions and Storage Granules

    • This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus, as well as Negri bodies, or cellular inclusions.

  • Intramuscular Injections

    • In addition, some vaccines are administered intramuscularly: Gardasil, Hepatitis A vaccine, Rabies vaccine, and Influenza vaccines based on inactivated viruses are commonly administered intramuscularly (although there is active research being conducted as to the best route of administration).

  • Vaccines and Anti-Viral Drugs for Treatment

    • In the case of rabies, a fatal neurological disease transmitted via the saliva of rabies virus-infected animals, the progression of the disease from the time of the animal bite to the time it enters the central nervous system may be two weeks or longer.

  • Intro and major themes

    • 1. 1885 first rabies vaccine to human to a kid who had been bitten by a rabid dog.

  • Antibiotic Discovery

    • Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist best known for their experiments supporting the Germ theory of disease, and for his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies.

  • Tissue Tropism in Animal Viruses

  • Modern Microbiology

    • Pasteur also designed methods for food preservation (pasteurization) and vaccines against several diseases such as anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies.

  • Viral Genomes in Nature

    • Other viruses, such as rabies virus, can infect different species of mammals and are said to have a broad range.