Title from container. Read by Johnny Heller. Compact disc. "Tracks Every 3 Minutes."
Summary:
Rabid charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. In the absence of vaccination--as was true up until the late nineteenth century--the rabies virus caused brain infections with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate, both in animals and in humans, and the suffering it inflicted became the stuff of legend. The transmission of the virus--often from dog to man--reawakened a primal fear of wild animals, and the illness' violent symptoms spoke directly to mankind's fear of the beast within. The cultural response was to create fictional embodiments of those anxieties--ravenous wolfmen, bloodsucking vampires, and armies of mindless zombies.
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