| Rabies Contributor(s): Kumar, P. Dileep (Author) |
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ISBN: 0313345244 ISBN-13: 9780313345241 Publisher: Greenwood OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: A short history and examination of rabies, once one of the most feared diseases among humans and one that continues to ravage developing nations today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - General |
| Dewey: 614.563 |
| LCCN: 2008033711 |
| Series: Biographies of Disease (Greenwood) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (0.90 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions--the Biography of Diseases series provides students with the information that they need to understand the origin of various maladies, how they impact contemporary society, and how doctors and diseases researchers from around the world are fighting to devise treatments to alleviate or cure these. This volume, Rabies, examines that disease that caused fear and panic for centuries because of the horror of dying of rabies and the near certainty of death once one has contracted the disease. And despite the famous vaccine discovered by Louis Pasteur in the 19th centuries, thousands still die of rabies every year in developing countries. |