{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/rabid","description":"From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind\u0026#39;s oldest and most fearsome foes.\n\n\u0026quot;A searing narrative.\u0026quot; -The New York Times\n\n\u0026quot;In this keen and exceptionally well-written book, rife with surprises, narrative suspense and a steady flow of expansive insights, \u0026#39;the world\u0026#39;s most diabolical virus\u0026#39; conquers the unsuspecting reader\u0026#39;s imaginative nervous system. . . . A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work.\u0026quot; -San Francisco Chronicle\n\n\u0026quot;Fascinating. . . . Wasik and Murphy chronicle more than two millennia of myths and discoveries about rabies and the animals that transmit it, including dogs, bats and raccoons.\u0026quot; -The Wall Street Journal","author_name":"Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/bill-wasik","authors":[{"name":"Bill Wasik","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/bill-wasik"},{"name":"Monica Murphy","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/monica-murphy"}],"thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/28442509/f15242a59f52c5a7f8d1d551ced3157d7da0141f.jpeg","thumbnail_width":334,"thumbnail_height":500}