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  • What is a Lyssavirus?

    What is a Lyssavirus?

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    Lyssavirus The recent discovery of lyssavirus sequences from amphibians and reptiles challenges the mammalian origin of lyssaviruses. There is an 85% likelihood that these viruses originated in Palearctic. Definition: The Palearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas and North…

  • Virus that Sounds like Soda

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    In America, some people fear small rodents can carry rabies and infect others with the virus. This is utterly untrue for classic rabies and most lyssaviruses. But there is one known to infect small rodents: Mokola. There are many publications on the Mokola virus available on the internet but most are super dry and boring…