Rabies virus spreads from infected tumor cells to contact-seeking nerve cells Dr. Venkataramani's idea was to use a virus that specializes in infecting the nervous system to combat the tumor cells ...

South Carolina health officials confirmed a case of rabies in Kershaw this week. The South Carolina Department of Public ...

Despite being relatively rare, rabies (or hydrophobia, as it was also known) commanded a fearful fascination in Europe; wildly foaming at the mouth, its victims died painfully and dramatically. But ...

To be economically viable, antivirals will need to be developed that target a number of RNA viruses and not just the rabies virus. We identified transient, physiological disorders of cerebral ...

Researchers and technical staff there first tested the samples for the rabies virus antigen for triage purposes, concluding that all three cases tested positive. Next, they isolated the virus for ...

The polio virus uses the cells within the tissue culture to produce ... killed vaccines are used to prevent influenza, typhoid, and rabies.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases Of South Africa (NICD) has issued an alert regarding rising rabies cases. Rabies in seals has previously been uncommon, however, new reports from ...

They said the source of the man's rabies exposure has not been identified and the man may have gotten the virus outside the U.S. during international travel. The man did get medical treatment in ...

A key challenge in the development of drugs for CNS diseases is their transport across the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Reporting in Nature, Kumar and colleagues have now developed a method to ...

Future Virology. 2009;4(6):563-570. Rabies is considered to be the world's most important zoonosis, but is a neglected disease. It is medically violent and 100% fatal, yet has no cytopathic effect ...