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May 25, 2013 3:50 AM
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Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness

Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness | Virology News | Scoop.it
From wwwnc.cdc.gov - May 25, 2013 3:50 AM
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.
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Love it!  Zombies for public health!  Russell, you'll like this.  Thanks, Stephen Korsmann.

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February 22, 2012 3:54 AM
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Virology Journal | Abstract | Rabies molecular virology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment

Virology Journal | Abstract | Rabies molecular virology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment | Virology News | Scoop.it
From www.virologyj.com - February 21, 2012 12:46 PM
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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March 16, 2013 6:21 AM
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CDC: Rabies victim got virus through organ transplant

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From www.wbaltv.com - March 16, 2013 6:21 AM
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.
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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!

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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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