The pathogens that cause rabies belong to a genus of viruses called Lyssavirus that target warm-blooded vertebrates. Although researchers believe that all mammals are susceptible to infection ...

Lyssavirus, meanwhile, is a form of rabies which can infect humans and other mammals. Once symptoms of a lyssavirus infection arise there is no known cure and it is almost always fatal ...

Despite being relatively rare, rabies (or hydrophobia, as it was also known) commanded a fearful fascination in Europe; wildly foaming at the mouth, its victims died painfully and dramatically. But ...