Paul Bloom

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

Canadian Psychologist

Katha Pollitt

If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

American Poet

John Malkovich

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

American Actor

Ozzy Osbourne

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

English Musician

Understand that rabies is transmitted through bites or saliva from an infected animal.

Transmission Importance

Rabies is preventable with a vaccine, which is important for those traveling or working with animals.

Vaccination Prevention

Emphasize the seriousness; once symptoms occur, rabies is nearly always fatal.

Health Risk

 to work out some of the patterns of what drives that initial, crucial jump from one species to the next, and, potentially, how we might stop it, then we're going to end up better prepared for those viruses that jump between species more rarely but pose a greater threat of pandemics. Now, rabies, as terrible as it is,

What vaccinating vampire...

 Unfortunately, there's not really much evidence that it's doing anything to control rabies. One of the first questions that I wanted to ask was why is it that this conventional wisdom that the only good bat is a dead bat isn't actually doing its purpose. So, one of the most, I think, innovative and exciting ideas

Why We Need to Change...

 The malaria parasite, on the other hand, blocks an enzyme that helps the mosquitoes feed, forcing them to bite over and over and over again. The rabies virus may cause that snarling, slobbering behavior by putting the immune system into overdrive. But whatever the method, when you think about how effectively

How parasites change...

 in truth, all species of bats have sight. And some have even adapted large eyes to see better in dim lighting. Many people worry about getting infected by bats, and like any other animals, bats can carry diseases, like rabies.

The truth about bats -...

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Vampire Bats Biting...

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Misconceptions about...

 Their acidic stomachs protect them from living animals their rancid vomit scares off most predators. These stomachs of steel are essential to removing pathogens like cholera, anthrax, and rabies from the African ecosystem.

Vultures: The...

 that and many think of vampires sinking their fangs and two helpless victims even in the real world bats are thought of as carriers of dreaded diseases like rabies but in the madonna region of

Eating Bats PIPE National...

 take the animals they'll go in the corridor and put them into a squeeze cage and then if you can help us we'll give them a cat flu vaccine a rabies jab

The Big Cat Keeper Goes...

 under the influence of rabies even docile animals often become dangerously