IFNA1 and infection: At the same time, the dose of the virus in the inoculum, regardless of the strain properties, affected the following characteristics of the infection: the time of virus appearance in brain (day 4–5 vs. day 1 p.i.; Table 5b, Figures 1A,B), time of IFN-α and IFN-γ appearance in blood (10 vs. 5 h p.i.; Table 7a,b), concentration of IFN-α in blood (Table 7a), and induction of IFN-α during infection of DCs (Table 8).