Rabies Research Paper

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Rabies, the disease known for the foaming mouth and causing havoc in animals. But there's more to this disease, it's origins and other symptoms that make it stick out from other illnesses. 55k people die each year because of rabies, though there are vaccines.
This enveloped disease is carried in the saliva of an animal, it's body in general - making the carcass of the animal infectious to be around, luckily because it is an enveloped disease, it does not survive long outside the body. Rabies enter a mammal's body and spread through the nerves, then the spinal cord before it reaches the brain. This disease is a certain species of /Lyssavirus/ genus virus - an enveloped fever inducing virus in the /Rhabdoviridae/ family, belonging to the order

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