Rethinking rabies.

• Autores: Maryn Mckenna
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 309, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 28-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the virus disease rabies. Topics include the discovery by Peruvian and U.S. researchers that villagers in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon who had previously been infected with the rabies virus had not died, but recovered and developed immunity to further infection, how the discovery is challenging the assumption that rabies infections are always lethal, and a controversial rabies treatment of a Wisconsin teenager, named Jeanna Giese, by physician Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr. at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Also discussed is the number of people worldwide killed from rabies infection every year and vaccination of dogs as the most effective method for rabies prevention.