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* The vector for transmission by scratch seemed to be either the specimen’s own fresh blood or virus-containing fecal matter caught under the nails. Ravies sufferers scratch themselves anywhere there are hair follicles, often until they draw blood.

* An allusion to an underground gangrel creature created by the twentieth-century fantasist J. R. R. Tolkien.