Global perspective of rabies

摘要

Rabies is a zoonotic disease which affects a number of mammalian hosts, and is caused by a variety of distinct lyssavirus variants. Different variants of rabies viruses and/or rabies-related lyssaviruses occur on all continents, except Antarctica. Each variant is generally associated with a principal host species, whose use of space and social interactions allows the virus to persist in its populations. As there is no single lyssavirus species or variant and no single principal host, there is also nosingle epidemiological pattern.