Rabies
By: P. Dileep Kumar.
Series: Biographies of disease
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780313345241
Subjects: Rabies; Rabies
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rabies and history; title: How one gets infected with rabies; title: How is rabies diagnosed?; title: Prevention of rabies; title: Treatment of rabies; title: The global burden of rabies; title: The current and future trends in rabies.