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Wasik, Bill.
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Rabies -- Epidemiology -- History.
Rabies -- Treatment -- History.
Animals as carriers of disease.
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Wasik, Bill.
Rabies -- Epidemiology -- History.
Rabies -- Treatment -- History.
Animals as carriers of disease.
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Rabid : a cultural
history
of the world's most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.
by
Wasik, Bill.
Viking, 2012.
Call #:
614.563 W319r
Subjects
Rabies
--
Epidemiology
--
History
.
Rabies
--
Treatment
--
History
.
Animals as carriers of disease.
ISBN:
9780670023738
0670023736
Description:
x, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Looking the devil in the eye
--
In the beginning
--
The middle rages
--
A virus with teeth?
--
Canicide
--
King Louis
--
The zoonotic century
--
The survivors
--
Island of the mad dogs
--
The devil, leashed.
Summary:
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim--and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the
history
, science, and cultural mythology of
rabies
. The most fatal virus known to science,
rabies
kills nearly 100 percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. A disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans,
rabies
has served throughout
history
as a symbol of savage madness, of inhuman possession. And today, its
history
can help shed light on the wave of emerging diseases, from AIDS to SARS to avian flu, that we now know to originate in animal populations. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, "Rabid "is a fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind's oldest and most fearsome foes.
Genre:
Microhistory.
Other authors:
Murphy, Monica.
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Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
614.563 W319r
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