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Human Rabies in South Asia

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Rabies is an acute progressive encephalomyelitis caused by any of the viruses from the genus Lyssavirus, family Rhabdoviridae. One of the most feared diseases known to have plagued mankind since antiquity, rabies is the most lethal infection known to science. Despite the availability of prophylactic biologics since 1885, about 61,000 humans worldwide continue to die of this zoonotic disease every year, mostly in Asia and Africa [1]. It continues to be a neglected disease in most of the rabies-endemic countries of South Asia, which is the geographic epicenter of this serious public health problem.

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Mani, R.S., Willoughby, R.E. (2017). Human Rabies in South Asia. In: Singh, S. (eds) Neglected Tropical Diseases - South Asia. Neglected Tropical Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68493-2_11

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