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Model of Rabies Control
1976
Rabies is an infectious disease of warm blooded animals and humans due to a neurotropic virus which is usually spread by the intake of virus contaminated saliva into a wound after the bite of a rabid animal. In the present epidemic of Western Europe which started about 1940 in the East and which shows a tendency of spreaching in a west southwesterly direction — figure 1 — (Kauker, 1975) foxes are the most important carrier of the disease. Rabies virus was isolated during 1975 in the GFR from 5718 animals of which 4l80 (75 percent) were foxes and only 905 domestic animals (474 cattle, 113 dogs, 164 cats, and 154 other domestic animals).
COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s Disease
2021
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a neurotropic virus with a high neuroinvasive potential. Indeed, more than one-third of patients develop neurological symptoms, including confusion, headache, and hypogeusia/ageusia. However, long-term neurological consequences have received little interest compared to respiratory, cardiovascular, and renal manifestations. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the potential SARS-CoV-2 neurological injury that could lead to the development of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A mutualistic relationship between AD and COVID-19 seems to exist. On the one hand, COVID-19 patients seem to …