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A rabid bite and its consequence: Turning wind and water into greatest fears - The Oxford Scientist

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Even the fearless few would meet their match, cowering in terror at just wind and water, when infected with Rabies. Image credit: Don Agnello via Unsplash An animal’s bite has roused fear for most of history. In Mesopotamia in the eighteenth-century BC, chants known as “dog incantations” were carved into stone tablets. They warned of a dog’s salivary component that behaves like poison, casting death sentences upon any recipients of a bite. The cause of these deaths is now known as a disease called rabies, which is still heralded as a global threat, claiming almost 59,000 lives globally each year. The salivary component impressively speculated thousands of years ago is now known as the rabies virus (RABV), an infective agent consisting of not much more than ribonucleic acids (RNA) and protein. RABV is classified as a lyssavirus—a class of viruses comprising seven neurotropic species that carry RNA as their genetic material. As neurotropic viruses, RABV can infect the central nervous sys

Even the fearless few would meet their match, cowering in terror at just wind and water, when infected with Rabies. Image credit: Don Agnello via Unsplash An animal’s bite has roused fear for most of history. In Mesopotamia in the eighteenth-century BC, chants known as “dog incantations” were carved into stone tablets. They warned of a dog’s salivary component that behaves like poison, casting death sentences upon any recipients of a bite. The cause of these deaths is now known as a disease called rabies, which is still heralded as a global threat, claiming almost 59,000 lives globally each ye

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