Rabies virus is a type of disease infection caused by the Lyssavirus, also known as Hydrophobia (fear of water), it is a virus strain of the disease that carried from mammals including dogs, cats, bats, raccoon, skunk, cattle, horse and monkeys but rarely by rodents. Rabies can be transmitted through animal saliva but more rarely in human saliva. The cases of the virus, reported more than 150 countries except Antarctica.
- ↑ Walker, Peter (15 June 2015). "mplementation of taxon-wide non-Latinized binomial species names in the family Rhabdoviridae" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
Rabies virus Rabies lyssavirus rabies virus (RABV)[M13215]