rabies virus
Deadly bite transmitter
The rabies virus is the pathogen that causes rabies, a fatal disease affecting the nervous system of mammals.
Transmitted through saliva—typically via bites from infected animals—the virus travels along nerves to the brain, causing inflammation, aggression, hydrophobia, and death if untreated.
Post-exposure vaccination can prevent the disease if administered promptly after a bite.
- hydrophobiaFear of water
- Old YellerFrontier family's doomed pet
- vaccineDisease prevention injection
- encephalitisInflammatory brain condition
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
Cujo · Louis Pasteur · incubation period · paralysis · wildlife management · coma · quarantine protocols · neurological symptoms · mad dog · stray dog · public health campaigns · fatality rate · fatal · foam · bite · feral · brain · brain tissue
- Animal Pathogensparvovirus, avian influenza, avian flu, kennel cough, heartworm
- Pathogenspathogen, germ, germs, bacteria, bacterium
- RNA virusescoronavirus, poliovirus, rhinovirus, HIV, norovirus
- Rhabdoviruses
- infectious diseasescholera, anthrax, malaria, measles, flu
- Virusescoronavirus, adenovirus, herpesvirus, enterovirus, norovirus
rabies virusrhinovirus
Cold-causing pathogen
adenovirus · norovirus · probiotics · asymptomatic infection
rabies virusbacteria
Nucleus-free single-celled organisms
bacterium · parasitic infection · protozoan · bacterial infection · prion