rabies

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/29/19
  

  Rabies’ horrifying symptoms inspired folktales of humans turned into werewolves, vampires and other monsters

  by Jessica Wang

  The author's new book, “Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920,” explores the hidden meanings behind the ways people talked about rabies.