Monday, August 20, 2012

FOR KIDS: Surprising rabies resistance

Amazon villagers survive deadly disease carried by vampire bats

Web edition : 3:56 pm

Rabies is a terrible way to die. The disease is caused by a virus that spreads through animal bites. Without treatment, it attacks the brain and can cause symptoms like hallucinations, paralysis, fever and severe pain. Untreated, the disease is usually deadly ? except to some people in a few Peruvian villages, scientists now report.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?Surprising rabies resistance


Found in: Science News For Kids

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/343125/title/FOR_KIDS_Surprising_rabies_resistance

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