Also holy crap just looked immune privlidge up and the central nervous system is part of the group—is that why rabies can lurk for years and then crawl up your spine and kill you?
Its one of the reasons why our best tool against an infection you already have is a vaccine.
I haven’t heard of rabies “lurking for years”, but there are absolutely pathogens that can survive in latent form and cause all kinds of bad stuff.
A classic example is vcv returning as shingles, and JC virus killing AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients years after initial infection.
And cold sores, but that’s less scary.
Also holy crap just looked immune privlidge up and the central nervous system is part of the group—is that why rabies can lurk for years and then crawl up your spine and kill you?
Its one of the reasons why our best tool against an infection you already have is a vaccine.
I haven’t heard of rabies “lurking for years”, but there are absolutely pathogens that can survive in latent form and cause all kinds of bad stuff.
A classic example is vcv returning as shingles, and JC virus killing AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients years after initial infection.
And cold sores, but that’s less scary.