Despite great leaps in rabies prevention, the virus still kills over 50,000 people around the world each year. While poorer countries need better access to rabies treatment, wealthier countries arguably have too much access, leading to millions of dollars in unnecessary treatments. This deadly disease is more complex than first meets the eye, favoring specific host species in a given geographical area, and in some cases even allowing its victim to survive the infection. This post and the next explore some of these complexities.

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