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“Project for the Prevention of Hydrophobia in Man” (Storti), 109

Quiteria, Saint, 59, 61

rabbits, 135, 136

rabies:

apocryphal treatments for, 33–36, 45–46, 53–54, 58–59, 98, 114–15

attenuation of, 135–36

and Duke of Richmond, 8–9, 10

dumb or paralytic, 129

furious, 130

human mortality worldwide, 6–7

human survivors of, 181–200

and hydrophobia, 8–10, 21

immune response against, 197–99

in myth, 16–17, 39–42, 151, 220

and poverty, 206

symptoms of, 7–8, 9, 21–22, 24

vaccine for, 5, 110,
118
, 128–31, 144, 228

and vampires, 65–68, 86

and werewolves, 67–70

worldwide control of, 206

raccoons, 2, 226–28, 229

Rage, The
(fiction), 173–74, 207

Rakotovao, Marie-Françoise, 44

Ramses V, Pharaoh, 32

rats:

and flu viruses, 154–55

and plague, 4, 32–33, 49–51, 147

Raynaud, Maurice, 130

Remy, Nicholas, 72

Reynolds, Precious, 194–95, 199

Rice, Anne, 65, 86

Richmond, Charles Lennox, fourth Duke of, 7, 8–9, 10, 12

Ritvo, Harriet, 94

Robinson, Edward G., 231

Roby, Shirlee, 194–95

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 153

Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 113

Rödlach, Alexander, 169, 170

Romero, George, 160, 162

Roosevelt, Theodore, 112

Rossignol, Hippolyte, 127

Roulet, Jacques, 75, 77

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 67

Roux, Emile, 10, 121, 125n, 127n, 129, 134, 136, 146, 147

Rupprecht, Charles, 199, 229–30

Rush, Benjamin, 95–99, 108

Rymer, James Malcolm,
Varney the Vampyre,
89

Saint-Hubert, basilica at,
38
, 44–46

St. Rita’s Hospital, Lima, Ohio, 188, 189–90

saludadores,
5, 59–62

Say, Léon, 140

Schrödinger’s cat, 11

September 11 attacks, 161

Sesame Street
(TV), 89

Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 92

Shelley, Mary Godwin, 83

Shelley, Percy, 83–84

Shippen, William, 97n

Shope, Richard, 153–54, 175

silver nitrate, 114

Skidi Pawnee tribe, 115

skunks, 3, 111–12, 114

smallpox, 4, 32, 52, 123–25

Smith, Wilson, 153–54

Song of Roland, The,
54–55, 86

Sontag, Susan, 5

Illness as Metaphor,
17, 55–56

Soranus of Ephesus, 23–24, 35–36, 95

Spanish flu, 152–53, 175

Spanish fly, 58

Spanish Inquisition, 59–62

Spring-Heeled Jack, 106

Stedman, J. G., 87–88

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 106

Stoker, Bram, 80, 86, 89

Story of Louis Pasteur, The
(movie), 157

Strabo, 70

strychnine, 114

Sus´ruta samhita,
20–21, 22, 33–34, 95

Suwana, Made, 214

Swaan–Van Tilborg, Hans and Ann, 43

Swieten, Gerard van, 10

swine flu (2009 H1N1), 4, 52, 152–54, 155, 175–77

syphilis, 52

Tangkas, Ketut, 204, 211

Tausiet, María, 61

Teas, Jane, 166–67

tetanus (lockjaw), 98

Themison, 23, 24

Thomas à Becket, 47

Thuillier, Louis, 134, 136

To Kill a Mockingbird
(movie), 104

Toussaint, Henri, 127n

Trousseau, Armand, 9

tuberculosis (TB), 4, 55, 147

28 Days Later
(movie), 162–63

typhus, 32–33, 147

United Nations, 207–8

University of Paris, 50

urbanization, 51

vaccination, 123–29, 132–33, 135–39, 141–45, 207, 210–11, 213–16, 218–21, 227–29

Vallery-Radot, René, 125n, 133

vampire bats, 86–89, 165–66

vampires, 5, 65–68, 80–89

variolation, 123–24

Vercel, Jules, 137

Verdun, Michel, 74

Viala, Eugène, 141

viruses:

definition of, 132

evolution of, 31

mutations in, 31

Vlad the Impaler, 80

Voltaire, 67

Vulpian, Alfred, 138, 140

Walking Dead, The
(graphic novel and TV), 161

War Department, U.S., 115

Washington, George, 97

Werewolf, The
(Cranach),
64

Werewolf of London
(movie), 158

werewolves, 5, 66–70, 74–77

West Nile virus, 4, 233

Widiasmadi, Putu, 218

Wiktor, Tad, 229

William of Wykeham, 47

Willoughby, Rodney, 180, 181–87, 191–92, 194, 196–97, 199, 228

Winkler, Matthew,
180
, 187–90

Winthrop, John, 115

witches, 5, 73–74

Wolfe, Nathan, 32

wolf-man, 66, 70

Wolf People, 115

wolfsbane, 30

wolves:

domestication of, 25

in myth, 5

and Native Americans, 115–16

rabid, 112–14, 119–20

Woods, Barbara Allen, 71–72

Worboys, Michael, 100

World Rabies Day, 230

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), 213

xenophobia, 70

Xenophon, 27–28

Yersin, Alexandre, 147, 152

York, Edward of Norwich, second Duke of, 52

zabaleen
(trash collectors), 177

Zinsser, Hans,
Rats, Lice, and History,
33

zombie movies, 160–64

zoonotic diseases, 4–5, 68, 233

accidental hosts of, 49

AIDS, 4, 154, 166–70

anthrax, 51, 116–17, 126–28

avian flu, 154–55

measles, 31

plague, 4, 32–33, 48–51, 147, 152

smallpox, 4, 32, 52, 123–25

swine flu (2009 H1N1), 4, 52, 152–54, 155, 175–77

typhus, 32–33, 147

see also
rabies