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Rabies is an acute, progressive encephalitis of mammals and has the highest case fatality proportion of any conventional infectious disease. This disease is an ancient, reemerging global zoonosis, caused by highly neurotropic viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus [1].

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