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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies)
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 09:42:12 EDT
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> An Aside:  On the duration of the initial symptomless period, there is one
> report of a dog who died after a year in quarantine (in England, I think,
> which is an island with no rabies and therefore has very strict quarantine
> rules).  However, since in every other recorded case, the symptoms have
> always shown in less than 6 weeks, it seems to me infinitely more likely
> that the quarantine was violated than that this demonstrates a potential
> one-year gestation.

Try Australia. I can't see how England, as close as it is to the mainland,
coulde be rabies free... Australia is because for a long time it took so long
to get there that the trip served as a quarantine.
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	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf)
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