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- Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian physician, (pictured) discovered that rabies was a fatal disease in the 16th century.
- Louis Pasteur, a French biologist,  created the first vaccine in 1885

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- fever
- headache
- weakness
- general discomfort
- insomnia
- anxiety
- confusion
- partial paralysis
- excitation
- hallucinations
- agitation
- hypersalivation
- difficulty swallowing
- hydrophobia

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Rabies is an infection of the central nervous system, which will cause disease of the brain and, eventually, death. Death usually follows days after someone experiences more serious symptoms such as hyper salivation, hydrophobia, and hallucinations.

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Most often, rabies is spread by a bite from an infected animal. Common carriers of the disease include raccoons, skunks, foxes, bats, and coyotes. The transmission of infected saliva to an uninfected person/animal causes the disease to spread.

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- negative sense
- single strand
- non segmented
- 60x180 nm
Rabies is made up of an internal protein center (nucleocapsid which contains nucleic acid), an outer layer/membrane (lipid-containing bilayer). On the outer membrane, one can find transmembrane glycoprotein spikes.

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https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html
www.austincc.edu/microbio/2993q/rv.htm