Mehdi Fazlalipour, Nazanin Shabansalmani, Firouzeh Farahtaj, Siamak Massoudi, Mohammad Sadegh Khosravy, Rouzbeh Bashar
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Rabies is a fatal and zoonotic disease that remains endemic in Iran. In this article, rabies in a striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in Qazvin Province, Iran, was found when being hunted for using the genitals for traditional thoughts of the people. The fluorescent antibody technique confirmed rabies infection in the brain sample, and vaccination was done for injured hunter.
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