Cycle Of Rabies

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Rabies is a viral disease that belongs to rhabdoviridae family.1 It caused by rabies virus which is a negative RNA strand virus.1 Rabies disease is more common in development countries due to the large number of rabid dogs there.2 The life cycle of rabies virus consists of three phases that allow the virus to replicate it self and affect the infected person’s nervous system3. Rabies may be caused by infected animal’s bite or scratch, or it may be caused by a transplantation of an infected human’s organ2. Rabies symptoms may be divided into three categories. The first one is initial symptoms that may be unrecognizable. The second form of rabies is paralytic rabies that causes a weakness in the muscles. The third one is classical rabies, which

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