Full name: Rabid: A Cultural History of the Worlds Most Diabolical Virus

Author: Bill Wasik Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143123576 0143123572

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. 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. In this critically acclaimed exploration, 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 wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. Similar books: Influenza by Jeremy Brown The Devil's Flu by Pete Davies The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager Blood Work by Holly Tucker Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright The Fever by Sonia Shah Quackery by Lydia Kang The Plague Race by Edward Marriott Polio by David M. Oshinsky Invincible Microbe by Jim Murphy Flu by Gina Kolata The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris Virus X by Frank Ryan The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky