. Because rabies can infect a lot of different animal hosts, many of which can live a long time or indefinitely after being infected.
From what I understand, rabies vaccine is usually given after exposure to an animal when the animal cannot be tested for rabies.
They are pretty silly compared to the neutron or gamma beams we use to these days to sterilize food.
.
Maybe, it really depends if we end up with ever a real-life version of The Last of Us, due to mutation, or 28 Days Later, due to weaponized (i.
Even then, they were left with crippling sequela.
You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
Rabies can't survive very long out of the host, and you have a few weeks post exposure typically to start treatment for it.
There are a handful of survivors in the history of mankind.
Tick tock, mother fucker.
It has serious neurological symptoms—loss of balance, unreasoning aggression, and so on.
It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often.
It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often.
.
The rabies virus (scientific name Rabies lyssavirus) is a single-stranded RNA virus which can be carried by any warm-blooded mammal, although some are much more susceptible than others.
2020 ain't done yet.
If it progresses to the point that you are showing symptoms, its already too late.
Human.