Rabies: The Diabolical Virus With Many Symptoms and Hosts With Rodney Rohde
Update: 2024-05-07
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Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University discusses the many variants, mammalian hosts and diverse neurological symptoms of rabies virus.
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Ashley’s Biggest Takeaways:
- Prior to his academic career, Rohde spent a decade as a public health microbiologist and molecular epidemiologist with the Texas Department of State Health Services Bureau of Laboratories and Zoonosis Control Division, and over 30 years researching rabies virus.
- While at the Department of Health Lab, Rohde worked on virus isolation using what he described as “old school” cell culture techniques, including immunoassays and hemagglutinin inhibition assays.
- He also identified different variants of rabies virus, using molecular biology techniques.
- Rohde spent time in the field shepherding oral vaccination programs that, according to passive surveillance methods have completely eliminated canine rabies in Texas.
- In the last 30-40 years, most rabies deaths in the U.S. have been caused by bats.
- Approximately 98% of the time rabies is transmitted through the saliva via a bite from a rabid animal.
- Post-exposure vaccination must take place before symptoms develop in order to be protective.
Links for This Episode:
- Molecular epidemiology of rabies epizootics in Texas.
- Bat Rabies, Texas, 1996–2000.
- The Conversation: Rabies is an ancient, unpredictable and potentially fatal disease. Rohde and Charles Rupprecht, 2 rabies researchers, explain how to protect yourself.
- The One Health of Rabies: It’s Not Just for Animals.
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