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008 120927s2012 nyu 001 0 eng
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050 0 0 _aRC148
_b.W37 2012
082 0 0 _a614.5 WAS
100 1 _aWasik, Bill
245 1 0 _aRabid
_b: a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
_c/ Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
260 _aNew York
_b: Viking
_c, 2012.
300 _a275 p.
_c; 22 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aLooking 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.
520 _aCharts 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.
650 0 _aRabies
_x--Epidemiology
_x--History
650 0 _aRabies
_x--Treatment
_x--History
700 1 _aMurphy, Monica
942 _cMO
999 _c270081
_d270081