What Happens When You Get Rabies?
Rabies may have lead to legends of werewolves, vampires, and zombies. And while it’s preventable, it still plagues around 60,000 people a year.
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WHO on Rabies:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsh...
CDC on Rabies:
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2014:
http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/pdfp...
Map of US human rabies deaths from 2003-July 2014 drawn from data here:
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/u...
http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/pdf/...
Many thanks to Nyar Lathotep for pointing out that the Laws of Eshnunna (the tablets I speak about at the end of the piece) were clay tablets, not stone, and date to the Old Babylonian period.
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Original Footage
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The Wolf Man (1941)
Universal Pictures
Nosferatu (1922)
Jofa-Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal, Prana-Film GmbH
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Image Ten, Laurel Group, Market Square Productions
The Nervous System
Archive.org/ Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation
Circulatory Control
Archive.org/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nursing Care of the Sick and Injured
Archive.org/US Dept Health, Education & Welfare; US Office of Civil Defense
Close-up of dog’s face during late-stage “dumb” paralytic rabies
CDC/Barbara Andrews
"Rabies and hydrophobia..." George Fleming 1872 Wellcome L0018105
Wikimedia Commons/George Fleming
Canine suspected of being rabid and aggressive
CDC
Rabies control in the community
US National Library of Medicine
Rabies Patient
CDC
Senses of Man
Archive.org/Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Tri-colored bat (6022400811)
Wikimedia Commons/Gary Peeples/USFWS
Presence of dog-transmitted human rabies based on most recent data points from difference sources, 2010-2014
WHO
Middle Ages rabid dog
Wikimedia Commons/Scanned from Dobson, Mary J. (2008) Disease, Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Quercus, p. 157
Map of rabies cases in the US since 2003
GROSS SFX
Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark
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Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S
Wink
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