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The earliest documented appearance of rabies on our planet has been in Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. ... The symptoms of rabies were diagnosed throughout history, following its inception, as being a form of undead or cursed type of creature, revenants if you will.
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― Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
― Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
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Rabies, frightening though its ravages may be to see up close, has about it the comfort of certainty. However much the furious dog was once loved, it cannot be saved. [...]
One could hardly grieve for the dog, because the dog was already gone. To euthanize it [...] was merely to acknowledge its departure.
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