Wasik, Bill, <br/><br/>
Rabid :  a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus / 
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. 
 - x, 275 pages :  illustrations ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: The devil, leashed. 
<br/><br/> The most fatal virus known to science, rabies -- a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans -- kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. Journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. 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 and often irreverent look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143123576 0143123572 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB450006  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016713490  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rabies--Epidemiology--History.<br/>Rabies--Treatment--History.<br/>Rabies in literature.<br/>Rabies in literature.<br/>Rabies--Epidemiology.<br/>Rabies--Treatment.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC148  / .W37 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>614.5/63 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC 550  / .W37 2013