Balard, Jérôme, 120
Bali, 203–22
dogs destroyed in, 208–9, 211, 212–13, 218, 221
rabies spread in, 211–12
rabies vaccination in, 202, 210–11, 213, 214–17, 218–21, 229
tourism on, 204, 207, 209
Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA), 212–16, 219–21, 223, 229
“Bali dog,” 217–18, 220
Bali: Island of the Dogs (documentary), 217
Barber, Paul, Vampires, Burial, and Death, 82
Baring-Gould, Sabine, Book of Were–Wolves, 75, 79
Barnes, Julian, 174
bats, 31–33, 229
and Hendra/Nipah viruses, 175
insectivorous, 164–66
and rabies, 165–66, 182, 188, 206
vampire, 86–89, 165–66
beaver, 1
Beham, Hans Sebald, 224
Benitez, R. Michael, 108
Benteen, Frederick, 114
Bergeron, Dr., 9
Berners, Juliana, Boke of Saint Albans, 47
berserkers, legend of, 69–70
Black, Joseph, 96
Blackfeet tribe, 114
Blair, Lawrence, 217
Blaisdell, John, 30
Blake, William, Jerusalem, 88
blood-brain barrier, 230–32
bloodletting, 53, 114
Blucher (dog), 7, 10
Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, 7
bobcat, 1
Boerhaave, Herman, 95, 97
Bordet, Jules, 147
Bourrel, M. J., 110, 129, 132
Boyle, Danny, 163
brain:
autonomic nervous system, 186
autopsy of, 10–11
blood-brain barrier, 230–32
excitotoxicity, 196
rabies virus in, 3–4, 7–8, 134, 236
Brazil, bat rabies in, 206
Brontë, Anne, 104n
Brontë, Charlotte:
Jane Eyre, 104–5
Shirley, 103–4
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 102–4
Brooks, Max, Zombie Survival Guide, 161
Burgot, Pierre, 74
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 83–85, 94
Cadeddu, Antonio, 125n
Caelius Aurelianus, 24, 95
Calmette, Albert, 147
Campbell, Alexander, 91
Canon of Medicine (Ibn Sīna), 50
Carell, Steve, 6
Carnegie, Andrew, 142
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint, 59–60
cattle, 31, 165
cauterization, 53, 87, 114, 120
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 22–23, 34, 35
Cerberus (myth), 30–31, 224, 236
Chamberland, Charles, 127n, 134, 136
Channel Tunnel, 170–75
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canterbury Tales, 47
Chernobyl power plant, 206
chicken cholera, 125–26, 127
chikungunya, 175
Ch’i-tan people, 70
Chusid, Michael “Joe,” 185
Clairmont, Claire, 83–84
Clarke, Elizabeth, 73
Cockburn, Francis, 8
Colavito, Jason, Knowing Fear, 105
Coleman, Jon T., Vicious, 115
Columbus, Christopher, 52
coma, induced, 186–87, 194, 196, 199; see also Milwaukee Protocol
“Constant Reader, A,” 105–6
Conway Cabal, 97n
cowpox, 124
coyotes, 229
Cranach, Lucas, 64
Cressac, Mary, 10
Crosby, Alfred W., 153
Ctesias of Cnidus, 70
Cujo (book), 173n
Cujo (movie), 6
Cullen, William, 95, 97
Cummins, John, 40
Custer, George Washington, 114
Cynamolgi tribe, 70
cynegeticon, 27–28
cynocephali (dog-headed men), 70
Darian-Smith, Eve, 171
Darwin, Charles, 88, 94
Dawn of the Dead (movie), 160–61
Day of the Mad Dogs (fiction), 171–73, 174, 207
Debré, Patrice, 132
dengue fever, 175
Dewhurst, Henry William, 108–9
Dhanvantari, Divodāsa, 20
Diamond, Jared, 4
dingo, 217
Dinsdale, Ann, 104n
diphtheria antitoxin, 143, 146
Disney, Walt, 6, 222, 223
Dodge, Richard Irving, 112
dog-headed men, 70
dogs:
attacks by, 99–102, 190
bites of, 19, 206
as companions, 71
devil in form of, 71–73
DNA studies of, 25
domestication of, 24–26, 94,100
dualism of, 26–27, 46–49, 102, 103
feral, 25, 27, 206, 208–9
in myths, 40–41
and the poor, 47–48, 101, 206
rabies in, 5, 19, 22, 26, 31, 90, 94, 98, 108, 151, 190, 197, 206, 228, 230, 236
ritual burial of, 26
as scavengers, 27, 28, 29
slaughter of, 100–101, 208–9, 210
vaccination of, 5–6, 155, 200, 202, 206, 207, 228
and vampires, 66
and werewolves, 68, 74–77
as witches’ familiars, 5, 73–74
dog tax, 101
donkey, 3
Dracula (Stoker), 80, 86, 89, 106
draculin (anticoagulant), 87
Duclaux, Émile, 125
Duff, James, fourth Earl of Fife, 91–93
Ebola, 4, 154
Edward II, king of England, 48
Egypt:
pigs slaughtered in, 176–77
ritual burial of dogs in, 26
Ehrlich, Paul, 231
Ernawati, Putu, 218
Eudemus, 23, 24
feline leukemia, 167
ferrets, 154
flaviviruses, 233–34
Fleming, George, 101
flu, 31
avian, 154–55
media coverage of, 177–78
Spanish, 152–53, 154, 175
swine (2009 H1N1), 4, 52, 152–54, 155, 175–77
Flückinger, Johannes, 80–82, 162
Fort Larned, Kansas, 113–14
foxes, 2–3, 7, 171
Frankenstein, 83
Franklin, Benjamin, 96
Fredet, G. E., 101, 106
Frelinghuysen, Frederick, 142
Froussart, C., 109, 110
Galen, 9, 111
Galtier, Pierre Victor, 130
Gandillon family, 75
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 103
Gaston III, Count of Foix, Livre de chasse, 46, 52–53
Gates, Horatio, 97n
Ge Hong, “Handy Therapies for Emergencies,” 34
Gentile of Foligno, 50
germ theory of disease, 110, 116, 123, 124, 126, 127, 131
Giese, Jeanna, 180, 181–83, 185–87, 191–93, 194, 197, 229
Gipson, Fred, 222–23
Girardi, Janice, 212–14, 219–21, 229
Global Alliance for Rabies Control, 230
Gómez-Alonso, Juan, 65–68, 82
Goya, Francisco, 88
Grancher, Jacques-Joseph, 138, 141
Greek myths, 5, 16–17, 22
Grenier, Jean, 75–77
Grinnell, George Bird, 114
Guérin, Jules, 126, 147
Gunawan, Deny, 219–20
Haas, Robert, 157
Haller, Albrecht von, 111
Hammurabi, Code of, 19
Hansen, Bert, 143
hantavirus, 154
Hartnack, Edmund, 116
Hattwick, Michael A., 189
Hector (myth), 15–17, 28, 162
Hemachudha, Thiravat, 196
Hendra virus, 175
Henry, Patrick, 96, 97n
Henry II, king of England, 47
Hercules Capturing Cerberus (
Beham), 224
Herneith, Queen, tomb of, 27
Herodotus, 27, 70
Hierakonpolis, tomb at, 26–27
Hippocrates, 20, 22, 23, 51
Hoffert, W. R., 166
Homer, 86
horses, 152, 165
Hubert, Saint, 39–46
Hugo, Victor, 55
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 155–58
hydrophobia as symptom of rabies, 8–9, 10, 21
hypersexual behavior as symptom of rabies, 9–10, 110–11
Hyrcanians, 70
Ibn Khātimah, 50
Ibn Sīna (Avicenna), 50, 57, 58
ibn Zangī, Nuūr al-Dīn Mahmuūd, 59
Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), 57
Iliad, The, 15–17, 28–29
immune system, 185–86, 197, 231
immunology, 124–26, 136, 147
incantations, 19–20
India, rabies in, 210
influenza, see flu
Institut Pasteur, 31, 144–45, 146, 147
Jackson, Alan, 197, 199
Jenner, Edward, 124–25, 126
jimsonweed, 98
Judge, Mike, 6
Karpas, Abraham, 167
Kete, Kathleen, The Beast in the Boudoir, 109
King, Stephen, 160, 173n
King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, 196
Kitab al-Taysîr (Ibn Zuhr), 57
Klosterman, Chuck, 162n
Koch, Robert, 116–17, 126, 127, 131–32
Koen, J. S., 152–53
Krishna, Chinny, 210
Kumar, Priti, 232–35, 236
Laidlaw, Patrick, 153–54, 175
Laighne Faelaidh, 70
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 85
Lamb, Larry, 171–72
Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, 42–43
lambs, 3
Lancre, Pierre de, 77
Lannelongue, Odilon, 130
Lassa fever, 154
Laurent, Marie, 120
Lawrence, William, 93
Laws of Eshnunna, 19, 25, 117, 178
“legend of the torn garment,” 78–79
leishmaniasis, 147
Lentz, Thomas, 235
Lewis, Paul, 154
Livingstone, David, 94
Loir, Adrien, 136
Louis XV, king of France, 123
Lucanians, 70
lupus, 199
Luvians, 70
lycanthropy, 66, 69, 75, 77–78
Lycaon, mythical king of Arcadia, 5, 69
lyssa:
derivations of, 54, 162
in myth, 16–17, 22, 68, 69, 86
power of, 27
twinned faces of, 30
McKenney, Thomas, 115
magic-medicinal bowl, 59
malaria, 4
Manners, Maria Caroline, 91–93
Marduk Prophecy, 19
marmots, 49
Mary, Queen of Scots, 47n
Mascarón, Andrés, 61–62
Master of Game, The (York, transl.), 52–53
Matheson, Richard, I Am Legend, 158–60, 163, 164
Mead, Richard, 77–78, 79–80
Mease, James, 97–99
measles, 31
Meister, Joseph, 137–40, 144, 147–48
Merlen, R. H. A., De Canibus: Dog and Hound in Antiquity, 22n
Metchnikoff, Élie, 146–47
methodists, 23, 35
Meyer, Stephenie, 66, 86
mice, 235
microbiology, 116–17, 124, 131, 152
Milwaukee protocol, 183, 191–94, 195–97, 199
molecular clock research, 341
monkeypox, 175
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 123
Monteche, Gabriel, 59–60
moose, 152
Moran, John J., 107–8
Moses Maimonides, 58
moxibustion, 34
Moxon, Richard, 184–85
mugwort, 34
Munthe, Axel, 10
Nāgārjuna, 20
nanoparticles, 232
Napoleon Bonaparte, 7
Native American rabies cures, 114–16
Nebuchadnezzar II, King, 25
Negri bodies, 165, 166
Neurians, 70
New Jersey, children bitten by dogs in, 141–44
Newton, Sir Isaac, 95
New York:
rabies in, 225–27
raccoons in, 225–28
New York Herald, 141–42, 144
Nicolle, Charles, 147
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, 235
Night of the Living Dead (movie), 160
Nipah virus, 175
NisīhaCū, 26
nitrate of silver, 114
nymphomania, 111
Oakley, George, 97
Odysseus (myth), 15–17
O’Gorman, William, 141–42
Oktav, Muhammad, 205
Old Yeller (movie), 6, 104, 222–23
Omen, The (movie), 172
Oregon Trail, 116
Osman, Sheikh Ali, 176
otter, 1
Ovid, Metamorphosis, 29, 30, 69, 107, 163
Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 86–87, 164
Paole, Arnod, 80, 81, 162
Paris, rabies cases in, 132–33
Parkman, Francis, 116
parvovirus, 167
Pasteur, Louis, 117, 119–48
and anthrax, 126–28
birth and early years of, 119–20
and chicken cholera, 125–26
death of, 146
detractors of, 145–46, 148
legacy of, 151
and rabies vaccine, 5, 110, 118, 128–44, 228
reputation of, 121–22, 148
and vaccination, 123, 126–29
Pasteur, Marie Laurent, 120, 147
Pasteur Institutes, see Institut Pasteur
pasteurization, 117, 121
Pastika, Madee Mangku, 208
peccary, 3
Pedersen, Niels, 217
Pekingese, rabid, 221–22
Pemberton, Neil, 100
pertussis (whooping cough), 147
peste das cadeiras, 164, 165
Pfeiffer’s bacillus, 154
Pius XI, Pope, 44
plague, 4, 32–33, 48–51, 147, 152
Pliny the Elder, 22, 34–35, 53
pneumococcus, 130–31
Poe, Edgar Allan, 106–8, 163
Poirier, Marguerite, 76
Polidori, John, 83–86, 106
poverty, 47–48, 101, 206
primates, 152, 154, 167
“Project for the Prevention of Hydrophobia in Man” (Storti), 109
Quiteria, Saint, 59, 61
rabbits, 135, 136
rabies:
apocryphal treatments for, 33–36, 45–46, 53–54, 58–59, 98, 114–15
attenuation of, 135–36
and Duke of Richmond, 8–9, 10
dumb or paralytic, 129
furious, 130
human mortality worldwide, 6–7
human survivors of, 181–200
and hydrophobia, 8–10, 21
immune response against, 197–99
in myth, 16–17, 39–42, 151, 220
and poverty, 206
symptoms of, 7–8, 9, 21–22, 24
vaccine for, 5, 110, 118, 128–31, 144, 228
and vampires, 65–68, 86
and werewolves, 67–70
worldwide control of, 206
raccoons, 2, 226–28, 229
Rage, The (fiction), 173–74, 207
Rakotovao, Marie-Françoise, 44
Ramses V, Pharaoh, 32
rats:
and flu viruses, 154–55
and plague, 4, 32–33, 49–51, 147
Raynaud, Maurice, 130
Remy, Nicholas, 72
Reynolds, Precious, 194–95, 199
Rice, Anne, 65, 86
Richmond, Charles Lennox, four
th Duke of, 7, 8–9, 10, 12
Ritvo, Harriet, 94
Robinson, Edward G., 231
Roby, Shirlee, 194–95
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 153
Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 113
Rödlach, Alexander, 169, 170
Romero, George, 160, 162
Roosevelt, Theodore, 112
Rossignol, Hippolyte, 127
Roulet, Jacques, 75, 77
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 67
Roux, Emile, 10, 121, 125n, 127n, 129, 134, 136, 146, 147
Rupprecht, Charles, 199, 229–30
Rush, Benjamin, 95–99, 108
Rymer, James Malcolm, Varney the Vampyre, 89
Saint-Hubert, basilica at, 38, 44–46
St. Rita’s Hospital, Lima, Ohio, 188, 189–90
saludadores, 5, 59–62
Say, Léon, 140
Schrödinger’s cat, 11
September 11 attacks, 161
Sesame Street (TV), 89
Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 92
Shelley, Mary Godwin, 83
Shelley, Percy, 83–84
Shippen, William, 97n
Shope, Richard, 153–54, 175
silver nitrate, 114
Skidi Pawnee tribe, 115
skunks, 3, 111–12, 114
smallpox, 4, 32, 52, 123–25
Smith, Wilson, 153–54
Song of Roland, The, 54–55, 86
Sontag, Susan, 5
Illness as Metaphor, 17, 55–56
Soranus of Ephesus, 23–24, 35–36, 95
Spanish flu, 152–53, 175
Spanish fly, 58
Spanish Inquisition, 59–62
Spring-Heeled Jack, 106
Stedman, J. G., 87–88
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 106
Stoker, Bram, 80, 86, 89
Story of Louis Pasteur, The (movie), 157
Strabo, 70
strychnine, 114
Sus´ruta samhita, 20–21, 22, 33–34, 95
Suwana, Made, 214
Swaan–Van Tilborg, Hans and Ann, 43
Swieten, Gerard van, 10
swine flu (2009 H1N1), 4, 52, 152–54, 155, 175–77
syphilis, 52
Tangkas, Ketut, 204, 211
Tausiet, María, 61
Teas, Jane, 166–67
tetanus (lockjaw), 98
Themison, 23, 24
Thomas à Becket, 47
Thuillier, Louis, 134, 136
To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), 104
Toussaint, Henri, 127n
Trousseau, Armand, 9
tuberculosis (TB), 4, 55, 147
28 Days Later (movie), 162–63
typhus, 32–33, 147
United Nations, 207–8
University of Paris, 50
urbanization, 51
vaccination, 123–29, 132–33, 135–39, 141–45, 207, 210–11, 213–16, 218–21, 227–29
Vallery-Radot, René, 125n, 133
vampire bats, 86–89, 165–66
vampires, 5, 65–68, 80–89
variolation, 123–24
Vercel, Jules, 137
Verdun, Michel, 74
Viala, Eugène, 141
viruses:
definition of, 132
evolution of, 31
mutations in, 31
Vlad the Impaler, 80
Voltaire, 67
Vulpian, Alfred, 138, 140
Walking Dead, The (graphic novel and TV), 161