Natural history :
Rabies virus causes an acute encephalitis in all warm blooded hosts, including humans, and the outcome is almost always fatal. Although all species of mammals are susceptible to rabies virus infection, only a few species are important for maintaining the disease in nature as reservoirs. In the United States, several distinct rabies virus variants have been identified in terrestrial mammals, including major terrestrial reservoirs in raccoons, skunks, foxes, and coyotes. Additionally, overlaying variants associated with terrestrial mammals are numerous independent reservoirs for rabies in several species of insectivorous bats.
EDSON ZERATI, MD
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Its not really a treatment to bank on. It only worked once. It was repeated on several others, who died. There is no true proven cure, and probably never will be as it is the only virus invisible to the immune system.
Actually there is somewhat of a cure that can be used now. The virus scrambles the signals from the brain to cause detrimental affects for the body, so if you temporarily shut down the brain (induce a coma) then the virus can not act. During this time, your body will be able to catch up to the virus and create anti-bodies to destroy the virus. However, there are side effects to this treatment.
I'm sorry, but you can not get infected by just getting licked by an infected animal. The virus must make contact with an open wound (transmitted through a bite) or if it makes contact with a mucous membrane. If you are licked by an infected dog on the arm it will cause no harm, as the virus itself is rapidly inactivated due to UV light. There is also no way that the virus can make contact to the nervous system through the skin.
I should have said that if your were licked by an infected animal and the saliva entered an open wound, then you would be at risk of catching the disease. I agree skin is a good barrier to virus but even so,a small abrasion could enable the virus to enter the body.
i got attacked by a rabid dog 6 years ago and got saved in time! thanx to today's medical technologie =)
Oh cool. Well I took micro in lets see 98 so that was ten years ago and as far as I can remember our professor said this was the current treatment but I guess we finally evolved that is comforting to know.
i swear i had that once
probably 1 simptom but u wasnd rabied
whoa!
would be great if you put a longer version of this video
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Its not really a treatment to bank on. It only worked once. It was repeated on several others, who died. There is no true proven cure, and probably never will be as it is the only virus invisible to the immune system. 
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