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Both parents must cope with the death of their child, Tad at the end of the book after Tad dies of heat exhaustion in the car where he and his mother are trapped.
Cujo operates on both the ordinary and the extraordinary, in terms of its levels of horror. On one hand, unlike most of Stephen King's novels, Cujo is not dependant upon the supernatural to inspire terror in its reader. In the real world, people are attacked and are killed by dogs. Rabies is a real illness. The horrific thing is that once Cujo was a beloved family pet, but because of the fact he has contracted rabies, it as if he has become possessed by a demon and he becomes a killer. The ordinary, beautiful setting of a quiet suburb that seems ideal to raise one's children makes the horrific contrast between Cujo's actions and the setting particularly effective. The beginning of the novel is also horrific for any animal lover to read, as it is told partly from the point-of-view of Cujo...
Cujo's thinking becomes increasingly frightening as the disease begins to eat away at his central nervous system, and the reader is forced to see the human characters through his distorted perspective.
Towards the end of the novel, when Donna and Tad are trapped in the car, the novel operates on a level of claustrophobia, as the two of them cannot escape -- and again, being trapped in the family car is horrific, because the familiar becomes a place of horror. The two are reduced to the barest elements of survival, as they struggle against fear, hunger, and the heat, as well as the animal that is threatening their lives. And the final, realistic rather than supernatural climax of the novel is when Tad dies. The death of a child is another example of realistic horror that seems justified within the plot of the novel, but strikes a profound contrast between the setting and the initial expectations it creates in the mind of the reader.
Rabies infections in humans are uncommon in the United States. Nevertheless, around the world approximately fifty thousand people die from rabies every year, mostly in emergent nations where agendas for vaccinating dogs against rabies don't exist. The good news is that troubles can be prohibited if the exposed individual gets treatment prior to symptoms of the contamination developing (About Rabies, 2011). Rabies is an avoidable viral disease of mammals most frequently
Jennings, Schneider, Lewis and Scatterday (1960) document the high prevalence of rabies virus present among gray foxes. They further document the fact that these rabid foxes were abundantly found near densely populated human settlements and reportedly attacked humans and other valuable livestock. Florida. Jennings, Schneider, Lewis and Scatterday (1960) however claim, that it is not possible to accurately determine the accurate percentage of deaths occurring due to rabid foxes
S. this has dramatically decreased incidences of the disease. Deborah Briggs, executive director for the Alliance for Rabies Control, reports that until now, no global coordinated effort has been exerted to help educate people in the world about rabies. Rabies "can be readily prevented through education, pet vaccination and increased human awareness about proper wound management and administration of rabies vaccination after an exposure has occurred" ("West Lafayette…," ¶ 7)
The book Rabies, edited by Alan C. Jackson and William H. Wunner is critically reviewed in a peer publication. Rabies is a "comprehensive" discussion about a major global disease, focusing on the history of the disease from ancient times, diagnostic evaluation of animal and human cases, immunological responses to the virus, and public health management recommendations. The reviewer recommends the book for its multidisciplinarity. 8. Scatterday, James E.; Schneider, Nathan J.;
These charts conclusively establish that the preponderance of rabies cases occur in urban areas and that the percentage between urban and rural areas is consistent. This graph demonstrates the occurrence of reported rabies cases for each animal type and overlays such occurrences against the location of each incident. The graph clearly establishes, again, the overwhelming involvement of raccoons in rabies cases, as in every given year of the study, the
Skunk Rabies: A Public Health ConcernIntroductionA recent outbreak of rabies among skunks in the town of Barkwood Dale poses a significant public health concern. Until now, rabies had only been detected in the local bat population, but the introduction of rabid skunks increases the potential for human and pet exposure. Over 30 skunks, several feral cats, a raccoon, and a fox have tested positive for the disease. This paper will