Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
Wasik, Bill
Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy - New York : Viking , 2012. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
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.
Charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies, documenting how before its vaccine the disease caused fatal brain infections and sparked the creations of monsters, including werewolves, vampires and zombies.
9780670023738
2011043903
Rabies----Epidemiology----History
Rabies----Treatment----History
RC148 / .W37 2012
614.5 WAS
Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy - New York : Viking , 2012. - 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
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.
Charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies, documenting how before its vaccine the disease caused fatal brain infections and sparked the creations of monsters, including werewolves, vampires and zombies.
9780670023738
2011043903
Rabies----Epidemiology----History
Rabies----Treatment----History
RC148 / .W37 2012
614.5 WAS
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