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Rabies chat, with Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, Authors of Rabid, on Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Rabies

The first slide of Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy’s informational presentation on rabies last night at The Strand read: “Be Afraid.”

Though their tone was for the most part sweet and mild, their subject was not. The husband and wife are the authors of Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, out last month from Penguin, which chronicles the cultural evolution of what remains the world’s deadliest virus. Read More