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3 unusual facts about rabies


Córdoba Synagogue

After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, the building was devoted to various functions including a Hydrophobic hospital, a chapel for shoemakers and nursery school.

Hydrophobia

Rabies, especially a set of symptoms of the later stages of an infection, in which the victim has difficulty swallowing, shows panic when presented with liquids to drink, and can't quench its thirst.

Joseph Demarco

# c. 1742 – Tractatus de Rabie (A Treatise concerning Rabies)


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Adelchi Negri

A few months later, Paul Remlinger (1871–1964) at the Constantinople Imperial Bacteriology Institute correctly demonstrated that the aetiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus.

Adolf Hempt

He stabilized Pasteur's vaccine against rabies so that it could be distributed to distant places.

Hempt's vaccine against rabies was the successor of Pasteur's.

Cryptic bat rabies

It is not well understood why most, but not all, cases of cryptic bat rabies can be traced to Silver-haired bats and Eastern pipistrelles, but it is believed that the strain of rabies virus in these species is particularly virulent.

D-Trash Records

Formed in 1998, Canada's D-Trash Records started as an online collective by members of Cpuwar and DJ Rabies as the beginnings of an international network of electronic music artists.

Hart Park virus

The HP virus is classified in the Rhabdoviridae family and is related to the viral agents that cause rabies and vesicular stomatitis.

Indian Immunologicals Limited

It is noted for developing veterinary and human vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease, rabies, bacterial vaccines, canine vaccines, hepatitis, measles, MMR and DPT.

KAT Centre

The KAT Centre’s goals are to create a healthy, sustainable street dog population, reduce animal cruelty, and eliminate rabies, around Kathmandu, Nepal.

Kristaps Helmanis

When Louis Pasteur created a vaccine against rabies in 1886, Kristaps Helmanis devoted himself to research of rabies in St Petersburg and reported his results to the Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg, who supported his studies.

Luigi Frari

His inaugural dissertation on rabies from 1840 represents an expample of conceptions of that disease in first half of 19th century, before Louis Pasteur's time.

Marnes-la-Coquette

A portion of the area of Marnes-la-Coquette was granted to Louis Pasteur in order for him to continue his research after his discovery of the vaccine against rabies in 1885.

Quarantine

The UK's anti-rabies quarantine regulations were a major plot point in "A Diplomatic Incident", a 1987 episode of Yes, Prime Minister.

Rabies vaccine

The development of the vaccine resulted in the elimination of rabies in many parts of the Visayas and Mindanao Islands.

Rabies virus

The exact molecular mechanism of this transport is unknown although binding of the P protein from rabies virus to the dynein light chain protein DYNLL1 has been shown.

Richard Heffer

He played Peter Witney alongside Roy Marsden in Airline in 1982, and took the leading role of rabies expert Michael Hilliard in the acclaimed BBC thriller The Mad Death in 1983.

Saint Sithney

He is the patron saint of Sithney, Cornwall, United Kingdom and is invoked for help against rabies and mad dogs and for healing of mad dogs.

Yon González

Throughout 2008 and 2009, González starred in the motion pictures Sex, Parties and Lies (Mentiras y gordas), opposite Mario Casas, Hugo Silva and his The Boarding School co–star Ana de Armas, and Sebastián Cordero's Rabies (Rabia).


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