{"id":181,"date":"2008-08-13T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/08\/i_didnt_know_that\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:57:01","slug":"i-didnt-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2008\/08\/i-didnt-know-that\/","title":{"rendered":"i didn’t know that!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid one of my favourite books was Old Yellow<\/i>. Great adventure story – but ends (spoiler alert) with the dog getting shot because it developed rabies. I was so pleased to find out that we didn’t have rabies in NZ! Anyway, rabies is caused by a virus, & there’s a vaccine for it; you can be given this after<\/i>  being bitten by a rabid animal because it takes a relatively long time for the virus to make its way to your brain (after which, you can forget all about the vaccine, it’s too late). But I just found out today that a) the virus gets to your brain via the nervous system; & b) that this was shown by introducing the virus into rats, via a wound in a hind foot, & then (between a day or so & up to 3 weeks later) cutting the sciatic nerve in the affected leg! Now that’s an example of scientific creativity in action – how on earth did the researchers (back in 1887) come up with that one? Anyway, go to ERV’s place & read the whole story<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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