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[edit] Tragedy in Germany: six transplants have rabies
Terrible tragedy looms in Germany: more recent news say all six transplants have rabies now. Added to the article. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4271453.stm
[edit] Mentioned in FoxTrot
This article was mentioned in a FoxTrot comic strip (the image) about Wikipedia today (May 7 2005), though it obviously didn't get the same attention that Warthog did as a result [1]. Just thought I'd mention it. --Phoenix-forgotten 17:52, 2005 May 7 (UTC)
[edit] Transmission
Someone has mentioned transmission via bites but not always, they failed to mention the other means though? what are they? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.212.64.35 (talk) 17:45, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Hydrophobia?
Should it be mentioned that the disease is also commonly called 'hydrophobia', due to the water fear stage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.144.231 (talk) 20:09, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Historical treatment of rabies
Shouldn't a section about how rabies was treated historically be added? I would add something like the following, but I'm still not sure how to make footnotes in wiki:
In spite of the advent of Pasteur's rabies vaccine in 1885, people in the US were slow to make the transition from traditional folkloric remedies for rabies. In 1910, the Public Health Service and the US Surgeon General were still trying to convince people to stop using chicken breasts and "mad stones" to extract the rabies virus from wounds. (News article: "Expert repudiates mad dog fallacies," Times Picayune, 12 September 1910, pg. 1.) Mad stones were calcified hairballs taken from the stomachs of deer. It was believed that if a mad stone was soaked in milk and applied to a wound, the stone would adhere to the wound and draw out the rabies poison. It was thought that wounds not infected with rabies could be immediately identified because the mad stone would not adhere to such a wound. (News article: "Old Madstone from Alabama in collection." Dallas Morning News, 7 Jan 1940, Section IV, pg. 5.) As late as 1939 some people still looked to the mad stone as a cure for rabies: "Mad stone as rabies cure still holds confidence of many Kentuckians," Marietta Journal, 20 October 1939, pg. 1.) Jenzum (talk) 01:51, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] "Zombies"?
I read an article that mentioned scientist could be able to create an airborne rabies virus, and this would make "zombies" a possible threat.[2] Does anyone else think this is true or should be included? Juan.h.idea (talk) 19:23, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Rabies
It is preventable from Animals that dont lay eggs. It starts off to 7 to 8 months. From this you will start having seizures, spazems, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.112.16.249 (talk) 03:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
