rabies virus

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A rather large, bullet-shaped virus of the genus Lyssavirus that causes rabies.

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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
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He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail.
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By May 27, five people had succumbed to the virus and 16 more were infected.
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The current FDA-approved measles vaccine consists of live but weakened measles virus that is injected into the arm.
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The fact that the virus is still alive has sustained many safety concerns, both rational and irrational, about its use.
Powdered Measles Vaccine Could Be Huge for Developing World|Kent Sepkowitz|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Rabies or hydrophobia is a disease which claims a certain number of victims every year in our large cities.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
If there is neuritis from the virus it becomes intense and causes muscular contractions, paresis, and paralysis.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
(p. 442) But it was the more poisonous virus of Secession which finally laid their proud city low.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
The scientists of Sator knew that the virus was virulent; in fact, too virulent for its own good.
Islands of Space|John W Campbell