Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies
Update: 2025-09-26
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Matters Microbial #109: Bat-Crazy About Rabies
September 26, 2025In honor of World Rabies Day, Dr. Rodney Rohde, Regents Professor at Texas State University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss rabies and some of the strategies used to limit the influence of that devastating viral disease.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Rodney Rohde
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Links for this episode
- An overview of rabies from the CDC.
- A historical overview of rabies and Louis Pasteur.
- The global impact of rabies.
- Bats and rabies.
- A podcast exploring rabies and myths about vampires and werewolves.
- A wonderful video about rabies SO worth your time.
- A video with three physicians about rabies.
- A detailed review of rabies and the rabies virus.
- The lifecycle of the rabies virus.
- Various tests for rabies.
- The vaccines for rabies.
- Rabies research at the CDC.
- Use of an oral rabies vaccine to eliminate epizootic rabies in coyotes and gray foxes in Texas.
- Information about World Rabies Day.
- The Contagion Live website, including podcasts by Dr. Rohde.
- A video from Dr. Rohde about medical laboratory science.
- A video from Dr. Rohde about rabies.
- Dr. Rohde’s biography from the American Society for Microbiology.
- Dr. Rohde’s faculty website.
- Dr. Rohde’s personal website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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