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Rabies in popular culture

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901:, Michael Scott, after running Meredith Palmer over with his car, finds out she may have been infected with rabies after she tells a doctor she had been bitten by a bat, raccoon, and a rat (all in separate instances). To detract from his own negligence, he organizes "Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For the Cure" in her honor. 122:, a critically injured woman receives plastic surgery that treats some of her intact tissue to become morphogenetically neutral, in hopes that tissue grafts to fire-damaged areas of her body will differentiate and replace the damaged skin and organs. Instead, the woman becomes a parasitic monster whose victims transform into rabid zombies whose bites spread the disease. 471:(1979) centers on a northwestern town that is terrorized by humans and animals infected with a (fictitious) variant of the rabies virus, which does not kill the infected, but does affect their minds and physiology (leading characters in the book to speculate that victims of this virus were the origin of the werewolf myth). 230:(2010), a small town in Iowa is infected with a biochemically modified form of the family Rhabdoviridae released accidentally by the United States Army. However, in the movie, the RNA virus begins as a water-borne pathogen, and there is speculation that the virus may have mutated into an air-borne pathogen. 171:
Britain, an artificial virus called "Rage" causes humans to become frenzied and uncontrollably aggressive. The virus exhibits similar features to rabies, with discoloration of the eyes, unpredictable behavior, the urge to bite, and the spread of the virus through saliva. While the behaviour of the
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episode "Rabies", Chief Mathews and the Highway Patrol have to find a young girl who was bitten by a dog at a gas station when the dog later displays the signs of rabies four days after the bite. After an urgent search complicated by the girl and her widowed mother making frequent random stops in
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revolves around the residents of an apartment building dealing with a new virus called "Lytta virus", which causes a rabies-like rage that leads to infectious bite wounds. Some of the infected people are placed in induced coma or in cold rooms to slow the progression of the virus, similar to the
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Season 1, linebacker Thad Castle admits to using rabies as a performance enhancer because it gives him the same competitive edge as steroids but is undetectable to the NCAA's tests. Runningback Craig Shilo later shoots up with Thad's rabies before a competition with a prospective freshman
778:, Season 1, Episode 4 ("Brendon Gets Rabies"), vacationing neighbors leave their cat to be watched while out of town. The cat eventually escapes and is later found in a rabid state. The cat then bites Brendon while he attempts to catch it, and both are rushed off to the 501:) is about a genetically engineered rabies virus with a double protein envelope, thus extremely easy to transmit (biting is not necessary any more), which spreads from one victim to another extremely fast. The virus gets turned loose at the London's 562:(2005) devotes one chapter to a rabies epidemic in Agra, during which the main character's new friend contracts rabies from a dog bite and dies. The main character tries to save him, but is unable to obtain the money needed for a vaccine. 856:, Season 5, Episode 3: "The Glasses", Elaine is bitten by a strange dog, has trouble communicating with the doctor about whether she should get a shot, and later suspects she has rabies when she has difficulty swallowing. 86:, a doctor in rural Mexico is infected with rabies and desperately struggles to return to civilization and seek treatment. A major scene in the film shows a rabid man exhibiting symptoms being restrained by locals. 759:, entitled "Mid Day Sun", a family smuggles their rabies-infected dog into the UK and a garage worker dies, resulting in a search across the North Yorkshire Moors for the rabid animal and its eventual shooting. 317:, is bitten by a rabid dog while attempting to retrieve a camera from an apartment. Marco begins to experience early symptoms of the virus, but when he morphs into a cockroach, the virus is destroyed. 208:
about a mutated variation of rabies, an apartment building is quarantined after an outbreak of an unknown virus. One resident of the building, a veterinarian, suspects it is a case of rabies.
461:(1994) is a love story between Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, the protagonist who is bitten by a rabid dog on her 12th birthday, and Father Cayetano Delaura, who is sent to exorcise her. 30:
nature, rabies has been a potent symbol of madness, irrationalism, or an unstoppable plague in numerous fictional works, in many genres. Many notable examples are listed below.
636:, is a television series which, in Episode 39 ("The One About Dumb People Dying"), told a story about a taxidermist who contracts the disease from an infected squirrel. 706:
Season 9 episode "Rabid", a sadistic kidnapper intentionally infects his victims with rabies and derives pleasure from videotaping their subsequent violent behavior.
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rural areas while traveling on vacation, Mathews and an accompanying doctor eventually find the girl and successfully inoculate her against the rabies virus.
261:(2011), a movie about college students following a government trollhunter, the trolls have been infected with rabies, causing them to behave erratically. 870:" (April 6, 1977), a man who saves Charles from an attack by a pack of feral dogs discovers he is infected and begins exhibiting signs of furious rabies 274:'s character Richard has been bitten by his rabid dog. Richard suffers from the final symptoms of rabies as he and his family are camping in the 1058: 983: 627:(Alphabetical, by series title) Many television series have dedicated at least one episode to storylines involving rabies infected entities. 193:(2007), is a zombie horror film in which an apartment building is quarantined after the breakout of an unknown virus (a strain of rabies). 764: 1184: 741: 1033: 1008: 676:, Season 1, an illegal dog fighting ring forces female athletes to fight dogs that have been deliberately infected with rabies. 711: 672: 546:(1964) describes in harrowing detail the events ensuing from one of the main characters' death following a bite from a rabid 445: 47: 956:
virus that causes severe aggression and loss of cognitive function in the infected, turning them into hosts for the virus
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episode "Rabies Scare" has Beavis get bitten by a rabid dog. He bites antacid tablets to simulate foaming at the mouth.
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works to diagnose a homeless woman's illness, and it turns out she is infected with rabies from an untreated bat bite.
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is at first thought to be a mutated strain of rabies, and is called "African rabies" throughout the earlier chapters.
1166: 867: 860: 603: 724: 663:, in Season 12, episode 25, titled "A Time to Die", Ben's friend, April Christopher, gets bitten by a rabid wolf. 892:, Britain is gripped by an outbreak of rabies after an afflicted pet cat is illegally smuggled into the country. 755: 508: 457: 213: 142:) infecting all her denizens with rabies. She is, however, overthrown. The lot of the denizens remains unknown. 826: 821: 774: 728:, called "Brother's Keeper", Ingrid (the fiancée of a main character) contracts rabies and dies as a result. 689:, titled "If Not For You", a dog-bite patient is suspected to be suffering from rabies contracted through a 305: 275: 226: 172:
infected characters in the film was modeled after the effects of advanced rabies in humans, the comic book
517:(1966) vividly describes a death from rabies when, in a side plot, the character Ramu dies of the disease. 198: 139: 879: 577: 428: 235: 930:
caused by a rabies-like virus that infects humans and causes them to attack any non-infected on sight.
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or a significant theme in many fictional works. Due to the long history of the virus as well as its
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runs away in the woods, afraid that he may have been infected with rabies by a raccoon.
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dog, succumbing to furious rabies after a fight with a rabid
252:, an Israeli film by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado 202:(2008), a Hollywood remake of the Spanish horror movie 976:
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830–2000
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children's book series, one of the main characters,
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Index

Rabies
plot device
neurotropic
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)
Jean Grémillon
Rabies (1958)
Ingmar Bergman
Rage
Glenn Ford
Stella Stevens
I Drink Your Blood
cult
hippies
horror film
Rabid
Marilyn Chambers
Desperate Living
John Waters
Baltimore
Edith Massey
Paris Trout
Stephen Gyllenhaal
fox
28 Days Later
post-apocalyptic
28 Days Later: The Aftermath
ebola
rogue

Quarantine

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