Rabies Cause, Transmission of Rabies. Rabies Cause. Rabies virus is in the Rhabdoviridae family. The virus cannot live outside its host's body for more than a couple of seconds, but live virus has been found in animals that have been dead as long as 48 hours. Rabies usually is transmitted through infected saliva as a result of a bite from an infected animal. Rarely, it is transmitted by viral contamination of a fresh wound, through a scratch, or through contamination of a mucous membrane (i.e., eyes, nose, mouth). There have been reports of rabies being transmitted through the air in bat-infested caves.
Filed under pics of Earth by planetary missions, pretty pictures, Earth, many worlds, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Earth and Moon from Juno. This image of Earth (on the left) and the moon (on the right) was taken by JunoCam on the Juno spacecraft, three weeks after its August 5 launch. On August 26, 2011, the spacecraft was already almost 10 million kilometers away from the Earth-Moon system.
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. â Edgar Mitchel, Apollo 14 astronaut, The Way of the Explorer, 1996. Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for! â Deke Slayton, ApolloâSoyuz Test Project astronaut, regards finally getting his first view of the Earth from space. Deke was selected in the first Mecury Seven astronaut class but was grounded for years due to a heart mumor.15 July 1975.