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'Police and the media are always ready to blame drugs for any aberrant behavior, and sometimes, of course, they turn out to be right. But it seems that a lot of times “drugs” is officialdom’s “god of the gaps”: It’s another way of saying, this is bizarre behavior and we have no clue what caused it. On the chatboards, they have another theory: all the talk is about the coming “zombie apocalypse.”
As soon as I read these reports, I instantly thought “rabies.” I could be wrong, too, naturally, but my thought was inspired by a book I just read by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, a husband and wife team (he’s a journalist, she’s a veterinarian) called Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.'
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