TY  - SOUND
AU  - Wasik,Bill
AU  - Murphy,Monica
TI  - Rabid: a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus 
SN  - 9780143123576
AV  - RC148 .W37 2013
U1  - 614.5/63 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Rabies
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - History
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Rabies in literature
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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