As a skeptical person I notice that the terrain theory proponents go after very old studies to debunk. There are thousands of more modern studies in the literature on rabies to choose from. I found this one on a very breif search.
"Mature and immature red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were fed varying numbers of white mice infected with street isolates and a fixed strain of rabies virus. Rabies deaths and the development of serum neutralizing antibody to rabies virus occurred in both species. The epizootiological implications of these findings are discussed."
So these researchers are able to inject a modified cell culture that produces rabies in animals that ate the injected animals. Wouldn't it then make sense to look into the contents of that injection (they did and they believe a virus causes the illness). If there was some new bacteria causing the illness rather than a virus shouldn't terrain theory advocates want to study that culture and find that out?
Animal studies are definitely relevant though. If this is shown to spread from mammal to mammal and the same symptoms end up being found in humans who've been bitten I don't see what other conclusion you can come to.
My original comment he responded to: https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/What-About-Rabies:a?lc=02f6ac8d6bb9a01fa1d04960b5df7ed273bdb21720a9418bb79a3613d879d1e1
As a skeptical person I notice that the terrain theory proponents go after very old studies to debunk. There are thousands of more modern studies in the literature on rabies to choose from. I found this one on a very breif search.
"Mature and immature red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) were fed varying numbers of white mice infected with street isolates and a fixed strain of rabies virus. Rabies deaths and the development of serum neutralizing antibody to rabies virus occurred in both species. The epizootiological implications of these findings are discussed."
https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-wildlife-diseases/volume-11/issue-3/0090-3558-11.3.318/STUDIES-ON-THE-ORAL-INFECTIVITY-OF-RABIES-VIRUS-IN-CARNIVORA1/10.7589/0090-3558-11.3.318.full
So these researchers are able to inject a modified cell culture that produces rabies in animals that ate the injected animals. Wouldn't it then make sense to look into the contents of that injection (they did and they believe a virus causes the illness). If there was some new bacteria causing the illness rather than a virus shouldn't terrain theory advocates want to study that culture and find that out?
Animal studies are definitely relevant though. If this is shown to spread from mammal to mammal and the same symptoms end up being found in humans who've been bitten I don't see what other conclusion you can come to.