Rabies
Contributors: Alan C. Jackson (Editor); William H. Wunner (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780123790774
Subjects: Medical microbiology & virology; Veterinary medicine: infectious diseases & therapeutics; Medical / Nursing; Animal Viruses; Parasitic Diseases; Veterinary Medicine - General; Medical; Rabies; Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Microbiology; Veterinary Science; Medical / Veterinary Medicine / General; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Parasitology
First sentence: The dictionary tells us that rabies is derived from the Latin rabere, "to rage or to rave," as is the corresponding adjective rabid; rabere possibly may have earlier origins in the Sanskrit rabhas, for "violence."