Numerous bat species have been identified as important reservoirs of zoonotic viral
pathogens. Rabies and rabies-related viruses constitute one of the most important viral …

The lyssaviruses are a diverse group of viruses capable of causing rabies, which is an
invariably fatal encephalitic disease in both humans and animals. Currently, the lyssavirus …

The situation of rabies in America is complex: rabies in dogs has decreased dramatically,
but bats are increasingly recognized as natural reservoirs of other rabies variants. Here, bat …

More than 50,000 people die of rabies each year; most are children in developing countries,
and almost all have been bitten by dogs. Eliminating canine rabies throughout the world …

During the past decade, incidence of human infection with rabies virus (RABV) spread by
the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) increased considerably in South America …

Rabies virus has existed for thousands of years and is circulating in many species. In the
present study, a total of 2896 rabies viruses isolated worldwide were phylogenetically …

Background Tropical and zoonotic diseases are major problems in developing countries like
Ecuador. Poorly designed houses, the high proportion of isolated indigenous population …

Human rabies has been described by various cultures in many countries around the world.
Gabriel García Márquez's novel Of love and other demons recounts the story of a girl who, in …

After 25 years without any reported cases of rabies in Uruguay, the northern region of the
country experienced an epizootic of bovine paralytic rabies in October 2007. The outbreak …

Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease caused by a neurotropic RNA virus part of the family
Rhabdoviridae. The disease is characterized by encephalitic inflammation and is …