This product contains sodium azide as preservative. Although the amount of sodium azide is very small appropriate care must be taken when handling this product.
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Biological Significance
Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) in warm-blooded animals. It is zoonotic most commonly transmitted by a bite from an infected animal. The rabies virus is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus, in the family Rhabdoviridae, order Mononegavirales. Lyssaviruses have helical symmetry, with a length of about 180 nm and a cross-sectional diameter of about 75 nm.