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Sitting at his laboratory bench, a scientist adds mutation after mutation to a strand of rabies virus RNA, unaware that in a few short days, an outbreak of this very mutation would destroy society as we know it.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
Love it! Zombies for public health! Russell, you'll like this. Thanks, Stephen Korsmann. 
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Rabies is an avertable viral disease caused by the rabid animal to the warm blooded animals (zoonotic) especially human. Rabies occurs in more than 150 countries and territories.
A very useful review on something that is an underestimated problem in developing countries. Image courtesy of Russell Kightley Media (http://www.rkm.com.au)
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A Maryland man who died of the first fatal case of human rabies in the state in nearly 40 years got the virus through an organ transplant, health officials say.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
Not something you'd ordinarily think to check for...but something you'd REALLY like to know about, before getting a transpant, or a transfusion for that matter!
Marion Koopmans's comment,
March 17, 2013 4:36 AM
I have not seen full details, but it is striking to me that organs from a patient that must have died with neurological disease, in a country with rabies, are not tested for that. I assume here that donation from patients with neurological illness is rare, so testing those routinely for a range of neurotropic viruses would seem logical to me. Time delay does not have to be a problem, in our hospital a panel like that can be run within ours. But of course, info is too limited for any conclusion.
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Could happen http://zombiethong.blogspot.com/