Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus / Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking , 2012.Description: 275 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780670023738
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.5 WAS
LOC classification:
  • RC148 .W37 2012
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: 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.
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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.

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