Rabid

  War Department, U.S., 115

  Washington, George, 97

  Werewolf, The (Cranach), 64

  Werewolf of London (movie), 158

  werewolves, 5, 66–70, 74–77

  West Nile virus, 4, 233

  Widiasmadi, Putu, 218

  Wiktor, Tad, 229

  William of Wykeham, 47

  Willoughby, Rodney, 180, 181–87, 191–92, 194, 196–97, 199, 228

  Winkler, Matthew, 180, 187–90

  Winthrop, John, 115

  witches, 5, 73–74

  Wolfe, Nathan, 32

  wolf-man, 66, 70

  Wolf People, 115

  wolfsbane, 30

  wolves:

  domestication of, 25

  in myth, 5

  and Native Americans, 115–16

  rabid, 112–14, 119–20

  Woods, Barbara Allen, 71–72

  Worboys, Michael, 100

  World Rabies Day, 230

  World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), 213

  xenophobia, 70

  Xenophon, 27–28

  Yersin, Alexandre, 147, 152

  York, Edward of Norwich, second Duke of, 52

  zabaleen (trash collectors), 177

  Zinsser, Hans, Rats, Lice, and History, 33

  zombie movies, 160–64

  zoonotic diseases, 4–5, 68, 233

  accidental hosts of, 49

  AIDS, 4, 154, 166–70

  anthrax, 51, 116–17, 126–28

  avian flu, 154–55

  measles, 31

  plague, 4, 32–33, 48–51, 147, 152

  smallpox, 4, 32, 52, 123–25

  swine flu (2009 H1N1), 4, 52, 152–54, 155, 175–77

  typhus, 32–33, 147

  see also rabies