ApocaDocs: New, Fast-Evolving Rabies Virus Found -- And Spreading

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Posted Tue May 5 2009: from National Geographic News:


	New, Fast-Evolving Rabies Virus Found -- And Spreading http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1241538053 Evolving faster than any other new rabies virus on record, a northern-Arizona rabies strain has mutated to become contagious among skunks and now foxes, experts believe. The strain looks to be spreading fast, commanding attention from disease researchers across the United States... What is unusual is that the strain appears to have mutated so that foxes and skunks are now able to pass the virus on to their kin -- not just through biting and scratching but through simple socializing, as humans might spread a flu.

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'Doc Jim says:

Whew! Now I can stop worrying about that durn swine flu!