After a long hiatus we are back with a much anticipated look at one of the most feared diseases of all time: rabies. We cover everything from its evolutionary history to its massive case fatality rate, from why it makes you slobber so much to how Pliny the Elder thought you should treat it (spoiler: don’t try it at home, folks). Sit back with a foam-topped quarantini in hand and enjoy our first episode of season 2.
| History | Biology |
| Wasik, Bill, and Monica Murphy. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus. Penguin Press, 2013. | “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” GBD 2016 |
| King, Arthur A., et al. Historical perspective of rabies in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Paris, France: OIE, 2004. | “Estimating the Global Burden of Endemic Canine Rabies” Hampson et al 2015 |
| “Host Switching in Lyssavirus History from the Chiroptera to the Carnivora Orders” Badrane and Tordo 2001 | “Human rabies: neuropathogenesis, diagnosis, and management” Hemachuda 2013 |
| “Human rabies: a disease of complex neuropathogenetic mechanisms and diagnostic challenges” Hemachuda 2002 |
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