Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
Title:
Rabid : a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus
Author:
Wasik, Bill.
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Publication Information:
New York : Viking, 2012.
ISBNF:
9780670023738
Physical Description:
x, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Abstract:
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.
Contents:
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 -- The devil, leashed.
General Note:
Includes index.