Rabies Images
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We have made these photos available for many vaccine-preventable diseases as an added resource to help you educate staff and patients about the importance of vaccination. We list them separately from each disease’s main page. Download these images for use in lectures and presentations.
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Hospitalized human rabies victim who was restrained while bedridden
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Hospitalized human rabies victim in restraints
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This horde of bats could contain possible carriers of the rabies virus
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Raccoons can also be vectors of the rabies virus, transmitting the virus to humans and other animals
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Foxes too, may be possible vectors of the rabies virus, transmitting it to humans and other animals
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Here are two dogs afflicted with dumb rabies, manifested as depression, and an attempt at self-imposed isolation
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Approximately a third of reported animal rabies is attributed to the wild skunk population
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Histopathologic features of rabies, brain. Characteristic Negri bodies are present within a Purkinje cell of the cerebellum; patient died of rabies
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Rabid dog with dripping saliva
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Rabid fox in wooded area
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