Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The vast majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year occur in wild animals like raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes. The rabies virus infects the central nervous system, ultimately causing disease in the brain and death. The early symptoms of rabies in people are similar to that of many other illnesses, including fever, headache, and general weakness or discomfort.
World's longest railway tunnel to open after 17 years of construction: Trains in Switzerland will travel at 155mph through 35 miles of mountain. The new Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) will measure 35.4 miles in length and is 7,545 feet below the Gotthard massif.
The A2 motorway from Chiasso to Basel passes through the tunnel and carries around 55,000 vehicles a day. There are tentative plans to construct a bypass to replace the section of the motorway that leads through Lucerne, which includes the Sonnenberg and Reussport tunnels.he only large-scale test, a five-day exercise in 1987 to practice converting the road tunnels into usable shelters, revealed many problems: Among other things, it took 24 hours to fully close all four blast doors, and it proved impossible to set up the 20,000 beds within reasonable time.