{"id":14651,"date":"2012-12-01T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2012-12-01T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T01:29:23","slug":"rabies-and-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/rabies-and-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabies (and Autism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discussed rabies before. In <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/06\/attack-of-the-hound-of-malembi-1\/\">Attack of the Hound of Malembi. Or, \u201cWhose are these people, anyway?\u201d<\/a> I discussed a personal encounter with a rabid dog, which killed my cat and bit six friend.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/10\/ode-to-rocky\/\">Ode to Rocky<\/a> I discuss an encounter with a cute little raccoon which probably did not have rabies, but since this was during the Great Rabid Raccoon Scare a few years back he got busted anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And now, we have Skeptically Speaking #190 RABID &#8230; last Sunday&#8217;s show which is now a podcast available for you to download.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, we\u2019re talking about a viral menace that\u2019s one of the scariest \u2013 and deadliest \u2013 known to science. We\u2019ll talk to WIRED editor Bill Wasik  and veterinarian Monica Murphy about their book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670023736\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0670023736&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20\">Rabid: A Cultural History of the World&#8217;s Most Diabolical Virus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0670023736\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. And on the podcast, we\u2019ll speak to post-doctoral researcher Elisabeth Whyte, about a crowd-funded project to use computer games to help adolescents with autism improve social skills and face processing abilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get your rabies shot first, then <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticallyspeaking.ca\/episodes\/190-rabid\">CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discussed rabies before. In Attack of the Hound of Malembi. Or, \u201cWhose are these people, anyway?\u201d I discussed a personal encounter with a rabid dog, which killed my cat and bit six friend. In Ode to Rocky I discuss an encounter with a cute little raccoon which probably did not have rabies, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/rabies-and-autism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rabies (and Autism)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3Oj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}