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THE DISEASE
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... Data on biological properties of the known wild-animal hosts of the disease, including pertinent information on population dynamics, movement, and inter- and intraspecies interaction are inadequate. PATHOGENESIS Rabies virus is believed to be pathogenic for all mammals, and experimental infection has been accomplished in the preponderance of mammalian species tested.
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... The implications of nonbite transmission of rabies are of considerable epidemiologic significance. The laboratory demonstration that skunks become infected following ingestion of a single rabid rodent suggests the oral route as a potential mechanism for dissemination of the disease in nature (Bell and Moore, 1971)
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... Although interspecies transmission does occur and is occassionally responsible for changing the pattern of disease, endemic rabies tends to remain confined to a single reservoir species in a given area and appears to establish itself in other species only after prolonged exposure. Conditions that permit the transmission of endemic rabies from one species to another are not well understood, although high contact rates between the old and new host species are presumed to be important.
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... . Fox rabies is endemic throughout most of the United States east of the Mississippi River and in the south central states west of the river.
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