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Urban fox Nelson's effete French pen friend Christian arrives for a visit, and starts behaving uncharacteristically badly - exhibiting mood swings and frothing at the mouth. Yes, it seems Christian has rabies. When pigeon Kali is caught up in a nasty pigeon cull, she resolves to take over the world and take revenge on humankind by creating the pigeox - half pigeon, half fox.
8) Wolf
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Jack has found a home and a purpose on a farm, keeping a flock of sheep safe from coyotes and training pups to do the same, but now he and his boy, Luke, must face a rabid wolf that threatens them all.
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"Zombies have invaded mainstream society in weekly television shows, blockbuster movies, comic books, and novels. While there is no scientific proof that the dead can indeed come back to life, there are many terrifying and fascinating examples of real-life zombies in the world around us . . . students will learn how rabies, which causes the infected to hobble, spasm, drool, and become aggressive and violent, influenced the modern depictions of the...
10) Louis Pasteur
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A biography of French scientist Louis Pasteur, focusing on his work in discovering germs, how to prevent germs from making food spoil, and finding a vaccine against rabies.
13) Louis Pasteur
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Traces the life of Louis Pasteur, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the work on pasteurization and vaccination for which he is best known.
14) Zoonotic Viruses
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Rabies, Lyme disease, West Nile virus-all are examples of zoonosis, an infection that can be transmitted to humans from animals. In this program, several experts discuss major zoonotic diseases of concern, as well as outline safety tips for both people and pets. Dr. Wendy Walker, president of the Maryland Veterinary Medical Association; Joe Conlon, medical entomologist with the American Mosquito Control Association; and Dr. Michael Zimring, director...
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"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that...
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From SARS to the swine flu, viruses that threaten the developed world seem to be growing in ranks. Even as medical science rises to the challenge, our knowledge of viruses is filled with troubling gaps and bewildering realities. Starting on the virus front lines-the rainforests of central Africa-this program unlocks the truth about nature's greatest terror weapons. Viewers learn why HIV is such a successful virus, why monkey pox may become the next...
18) Vaccines
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This book, presenting both pro and con opinions on vaccines, traces the history of vaccines, from descriptions of the early use of vaccines in Asia to the breakthrough in vaccines in the twentieth century to today's challenges of creating vaccines against bioterrorism agents.
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"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...