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"The state government knows the danger and if it refuses to authorize guns it is in clear breach of its duty of care if a human dies from lyssa or Hendra virus."

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Canine madness; rabies; hydrophobia.

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"The state government knows the danger and if it refuses to authorize guns it is in clear breach of its duty of care if a human dies from lyssa or Hendra virus." — Latest News - UPI.com
Some anomaly in Jive, I am not familiar enough with how it's written to hazard a guess, all I know is that this appeared quite a while ago and seems to be un-fixable. lyssa, & Miriam ... — Discussions: Message List - root
You see that in neither case is there the slightest effort to represent the [Greek: lyssa] or agony of contest. — The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
You see that in neither case is there the slightest effort to represent the [Greek: lyssa], or agony of contest. — Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
Her home has more details than we can shake a stick at, so make sure you check out the anna*lyssa has kept a real focus on eating at home and isn't shying away from making us all hungry! — Apartment Therapy Main

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New Latin, from Greek λύσσ, σ1α, Attic λύττα, raving, frenzy, madness (of persons and dogs).

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