Talk:Rabies

Plagiarism?

A large part of the introductory paragraph appears to have been lifted from the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/ Did they give permission to do this? Thomas.Hedden (talk) 13:17, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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

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)

Infants in rooms with bats

From the article, "Finding a bat in the room of a sleeping infant is regarded as an indication for post-exposure prophylaxis." I don't think this is precisely true. Shouldn't it be reworded to something like "Finding a bat in the room of an unattended infant is regarded as an indication for post-exposure prophylaxis." I suspect it should be applied to anyone of any age who finds a bat in their room when they wake up. --65.68.190.251 (talk) 19:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Map (Rabies Free Countries Sourced 2010.svg)

France and Norway should be removed, there's rabies in French Guiana and Svalbard. Hawaii and Western New Guinea should also be removed, as they are not countries. Bgagaga (talk) 08:31, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

French Guiana is oversean by France, but is in an entirely different continent (South America). Just because France oversees it does not mean that what happens there also happens in France, especially when it comes to diseases and outbreaks. That's like saying that the Netherlands has rabies if Aruba does. That said, Austrailia should be taken off because there have been a few rare instances of confirmed rabies. But, I could only find 2-4 people with confirmed rabies, so the maker of the map probably considers it rare enough to not count it. Barbiegurl676 (talk) 08:14, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

French Guiana is part of France, so if it has rabies, France has rabies and should not be coloured green at all. Australia shouldn't be green either, one case is enough. A better idea would be to make a map of rabies free areas, not countries. Bgagaga (talk) 19:20, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Many of the references on the map are out of date deadlinks, and need updating. I would suggest it is original research at this point and needs to be removed. 194.176.105.39 (talk) 08:55, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

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)