**Acknowledgements**

We acknowledge with appreciation the pivotal contributions of all our colleagues who made this work possible, notably Peter Curtis, Bill Wunner, Algis Anilionis, and Hilary Koprowski who provided the first rabies glycoprotein cDNA, Robert Drillien and Danièle Spehner for key help with vaccinia, Doris Schmitt and Karin Dott for superb technical assistance, all the teams at Transgène who helped with DNA sequencing, oligonucleotide synthesis, microbial gene expression systems, Tadeusz Wiktor for performing all the *in vivo* rabies challenge studies in Philadelphia, Pierre-Paul Pastoret in Belgium and Philippe Desmettre in France (and Charles Rupprecht and many others at the Wistar Institute) for enthusiastically speeding the transition to wildlife, the Institut Mérieux for sponsoring this work, and Jean-Pierre Lecocq, Philippe Kourilsky, and Pierre Chambon for supporting the project since inception.
