Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies) Message-ID: <455@baylor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 09:42:12 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.455 Posted: Sun Aug 18 09:42:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:20:23 EDT References: <140@drutx.UUCP> <713@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <715@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 15 > 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. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076