SOURCES DOWN BELOW Happy Halloween. I'm talking about the most nightmare-inducing virus: rabies lyssavirus. But if you came here for the gory details, this might not be the video for you. Instead, I want to have a look at why this virus is so hard to overcome, as it sits at an unbelievable 100% mortality rate once symptoms show. Are our immune systems slacking? Or has rabies evolved some truly terrifying means of evasion? Business Inquiries: ybtspod@gmail.com Sources: General Rabies Biology: Davis et. al (2015) - Everything you always wanted to know about Rabies Virus (but were too afraid to ask) Zhang et. al (2022) - Regulation of innate immune responses by rabies virus Dynein: Toba et. al (2006) - Overlapping hand-over-hand mechanism of single molecular motility of cytoplasmic dynein Medmonk's Dynein Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgkFEbmGrU Rabies Vaccine: WHO - Preventing Rabies by Vaccination Assets: All drawn cell-related assets were done by Toxo. Irasutoya Pexels Kisspng Rawpixel Music: "Onion Capers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/