Rabies virus. According to the query of China News Network, the Ministry of Health of China released the information of the national legally reported infectious diseases in 2003 on February 10. Compared with the same period of last year, the main diseases with obvious increase in incidence are rabies, hepatitis E, AIDS, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and measles. Among them, the incidence of viral hepatitis ranks first, while the number of rabies deaths and fatality rate ranks first, so in 2003, infectious diseases occurred in China, and rabies virus was the first death.