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A Brief History of Rabies
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The History of Rabies
There was no cure for rabies and no way to tell whether a person would develop it after being bitten. Bites from rabid wolves tended to be particularly lethal, in part because attacking wolves often bit people's faces or necks - meaning the virus was closer to their brain. Around the world, people tried various herbs and medical preparations to prevent or cure rabies. Because it was so lethal, many of these also relied on the idea of divine vention. For example, hubertus, also called saint hubert, is the patron saint of hunting. And one of his reported miracles involved curing somebody who had been bitten by a rabbid dog. So in much of europe
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