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

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Rabies----Epidemiology----History
Rabies----Treatment----History

RC148 / .W37 2012

614.5 WAS