RABIES NOT COMMUNICABLE BY BITTEN ANIMALS.

Rabies in Lowlier Animals

There is no mention in the available literature on the subject, in English or French, of naturally-occurring rabies in tortoises. Street virus, however, has been injected into brains of turtles and proved by passage into rabbit brain to have persisted for months. In the brains of Testudo mauritanica and Clemmys leprosa (a fresh-water species) it persisted for 302 and 150 days, respectively (Rem...

Diseases of Animals Communicable to Man *

IN this paper I propose to deal with some of the diseases of animals which are communicable to man, to discuss some of the analogies and differences shown in these diseases, and the way in which they affect the different species. A study of the different ways in which a disease affects man with his highly developed thinking powers, and the various species of animals which have no thought for th...

Spatiotemporal epidemic models for rabies among animals

Rabies is a serious concern to public health and wildlife management worldwide. Over the last three decades, various mathematical models have been proposed to study the transmission dynamics of rabies. In this paper we provide a mini-review on some reactiondiffusion models describing the spatial spread of rabies among animals. More specifically, we introduce the susceptible-exposed-infectious m...

Some reflections on how not to get bitten by a clinical guideline.

The last few years have seen the rise of the clinical guideline, in particular those generated from central National Health Service (NHS) bodies such as the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). Some praise these nationwide emanations as promulgating the brave new world of robust evidence based medicine, others characterise (or caricature) them as dirigiste measures leading to “cook...

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals