8/03/2012

Resistant to rabies


WASHINGTON - A group of people living in Amazonu'nda Peru, is expected to develop a natural resistance against rabies. Rabies vaccine, scientists did not analyze blood samples from six people, these examples "that causes rabies virus neutralizing antibodies, which" found.

Some people have developed an immune response against the disease, scientists who predicted this, can be used to find new ways to treat said.

"American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene," the scientists involved in research published in the journal The National Center for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases Doctor Amy Gilbert, killing the vast majority of rabies cases and said, this discovery is seen as the cause of death in rabies areas düşündürdüğünü improved ways of effective treatment can save lives he said.

Peru is common in fatal cases Truenococha bats bite and his two far-flung community of Santa Marta in this study, blood samples taken 63 people and seven people detected antibodies that neutralize rabies virus, the vaccine that is only about one in seven were recorded.

World Health Organization reports that more than 55 people die annually in the world because of rabies.

The U.S. and in Canada rabies in bats is said to be the major cause of death. (Aa)

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