Rabid (Audio)
ISBN:
9781470826468 (1470826461)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Rabid describes how furiously I flew through this. I now know more about rabies and it's culture than I ever thought i would. What a horrific virus. This book was both fascinating and terrifying.
Greek myths and fake cures? Not going to lie, I was yawning a bit. But I loved everything starting with Chapter Four. Pasteur's lab dynamics and the little boy (Meister) who ended up defending the Pasteur's Institute from the Nazis just were amazing stories. Riveting.
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RABID: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST DIABOLICAL VIRUSRabies is apparently the most fatal virus known to science. It is a disease that is transmitted to humans from another species (such as dogs and bats), usually by a bite from an infected animal. The rabies virus infects the central nerv...
The issues I have with Rabid have more to do with my expectations than with the book's intentions. It clearly says it's a cultural history on the cover, and it lives up to that - objectively I will say that it strikes me as too digressive.Basically I wanted more medical stories - more Rabies, less R...
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