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. Rabies addresses all aspects of this
horrifying disease: BLThe history and epidemiology of rabies, and
the rabies epidemic among wild animals in the use. BLHow rabies is
diagnosed, and the frightening symptoms of hydrophobia and
aerophobia. BLHow one get rabies, mostly from bats and wild
animals. BLThe treatment of rabies -- there's basically none, with
few people who have ever survived once symptoms appear. BLResearch
and prevention of rabies. The volume includes a glossary of terms
and a bibliography of useful sources for learning more about the
disease.
General
| Imprint: |
Greenwood Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Biographies of Disease |
| Release date: |
November 2008 |
| First published: |
November 2008 |
| Authors: |
P Dileep Kumar
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Paper over boards
|
| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-34524-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-313-34524-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780313345241 |
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