The premise of this book is interesting - that of the "World's Most Diabolical Virus. The execution fails in some regards.

The premise of this book is interesting - that of the "World's Most Diabolical Virus. This may appeal to armchair anthropologist, but was a bit dry and long-winded in my opinion. From there the medical history of rabies is discovered for roughly the last half.

This book written by journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy, traces the history of rabies through the ages; the development of rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur; the impact of rabies on civilization and culture; the devastating rabies epidemic that struck Bali in 2008; and more. The authors also touch on HIV/AIDS which is, perhaps, as dreaded as rabies.

Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy. 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.

flow of expansive insights, the world s most diabolical virus conquers the unsuspecting reader s imaginative .

flow of expansive insights, the world s most diabolical virus conquers the unsuspecting reader s imaginative nervous system. A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work. San Francisco Chronicle Fascinating. com/?book 0143123572 .

It is the most fatal virus in the world, a pathogen that kills nearly 100 percent of its hosts in most species, including humans. Fittingly, the rabies virus is shaped like a bullet: a cylindrical shell of glycoproteins and lipids that carries, in its rounded tip, a malevolent payload of helical RNA. On entering a living thing, it eschews the bloodstream, the default route of nearly all viruses but a path heavily guarded by immuno-protective sentries.

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from .

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. What's in the Box? 1 x Rabid: A Cultural History of the Worlds Most Diabolical Virus.

Rabies has always been as much metaphor as disease, making it an excellent subject for cultural history. Rabies has always been the price of living in a world we can’t ever fully tame. As Wasik and Murphy write of the disease, It’s gone until it isn’t

Rabies has always been as much metaphor as disease, making it an excellent subject for cultural history. The first half of Rabid chronicles how the virus contributed to and played upon our fears of animalistic possession and monstrous transformation. As Wasik and Murphy write of the disease, It’s gone until it isn’t. Lizzie Wade writes about science and culture in California.

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