![]() ![]() ![]() Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy takes us through Greek mythology to the middle ages to the Renaissance to contemporary times, examining the science, history, and the cultural impact of the rabies virus. ![]() You painfully lose your mind, and you die. Even now, once it takes hold in the brain, nobody is immune to it and (almost) nobody survives it. The sickness that makes you fear water is a long, slow, painful way to go out. Rabies has terrified people for thousands of years. If you’re bitten by anything outside, go get treated for rabies. It’s good practice, as a matter of routine, that if you find bats where you live, you go get treated for rabies. Even now, in the year 2018, with a method of treatment for the sickness that got animals killed by the thousands and terrified everyone throughout cities and rural communities alike, rabies is a scary disease. There is no evil intent there.īut rabies is different. I kept seeing it available? Maybe the title? It is sort of unusual to describe a virus as ‘diabolical.’ Viruses are viruses. I’m not sure what made me check this out to listen to on Overdrive. ![]()
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