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P. Dileep Kumar
Book Code: GR4524
ISBN: 0-313-34524-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34524-1
192 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2008
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 11/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Biographies of Disease
Description: 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:
  • The history and epidemiology of rabies, and the rabies epidemic among wild animals in the use.
  • How rabies is diagnosed, and the frightening symptoms of hydrophobia and aerophobia.
  • How one get rabies, mostly from bats and wild animals.
  • The treatment of rabies -- there's basically none, with few people who have ever survived once symptoms appear.
  • Research and prevention of rabies.
    The volume includes a glossary of terms and a bibliography of useful sources for learning more about the disease.
    • Table of Contents:
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Time Line
    • 1.Rabies and history
    • 2.How one gets infected with rabies
    • 3.How is rabies diagnosed?
    • 4.Prevention of rabies
    • 5.Treatment of rabies
    • 6.The global burden of rabies
    • 7.The current and future trends in rabies
    • Abbreviations
    • Glossary
    • Bibliography
    LC Card Number: 2008033711
    LCC Class: RA644
    Dewey Class: 614
    PDF Catalogs:
    Greenwood Science and Health 2008.pdf
    Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf
    Greenwood School and Public Library Reference Spring 2008.pdf
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