A coordinated and sustained program of dog vaccination is essential for preventing rabies spread to humans and animals, according to new research.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 1, 2021
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A public health investigation is underway in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, and New York after an imported rescue dog was found to have rabies.
Veterinary medicine
Jun 22, 2021
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Every year, approximately 60,000 people die from rabies. Most of these deaths are children – who are often less able to defend themselves from animals—in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 17, 2020
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University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues used glowing fluorescent gel to test the potential effectiveness of vaccines to control rabies and other diseases in wild bats.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2019
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In quantum electrodynamics, the choice of gauge (i.e. specific mathematical formalism used to regulate degrees of freedom) can greatly influence the form of light-matter interactions. Interestingly, however, the "gauge invariance" ...
Over the past month, a team from Oxford's Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) has implemented the first oral vaccination campaign to pre-empt outbreaks of rabies among Ethiopian wolves, the world's most endangered ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 22, 2018
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The rabies virus wreaks havoc on the brain, triggering psychosis and death. To get where it needs to go, the virus must first trick the nervous system and cross the blood brain barrier—a process that makes it of interest ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 25, 2018
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The rabies vaccine is extremely effective at preventing this fatal disease in dogs, but new research shows the vaccine may have a positive impact on overall canine health as well, and is associated with a decrease in death ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2017
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If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats and their supposed role in causing human disease, it is that they still have a lot to learn.
Ecology
Jul 13, 2017
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Using hundreds of viral genome sequences, scientists have shown that two major groups of rabies virus have unique evolutionary tendencies. Their findings are presented in a new study published in PLOS Pathogens.
Evolution
Dec 15, 2016
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