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Author:

Wasik, Bill.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2013, c2012

Description:

x, 275 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Rabies--History.--History.
Rabies--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Murphy, Monica, 1974-

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Viking, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

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.
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.

ISBN:

0143123572
9780143123576 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2013029909

Locations:

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)