A modern list of most-hated viruses might include ones that have triggered recent pandemics: HIV, or the lethal H1N1 swine flu. Wasik and Murphy are here to say such a list shows people today have far too short a memory.
Historically, no other virus can hold a candle to the cultural and medical terror of rabies, this husband-and-wife team argues. And it’s hard to disagree with the litany of horrors they roll out in their blood-flecked history: the infections, the symptoms, the deaths.
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