Thomas Jefferson University Researchers' Discovery May Change Thinking on How Viruses Invade the Brain

(PHILADELPHIA) -- A molecule thought crucial to ferrying the deadly rabies virus into the brain, where it eventually kills, apparently isn’t. The surprising finding, say researchers at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, may change the way scientists think about how central nervous system-attacking viruses such as herpes viruses invade the brain and cause disease.

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