carlos lopez-extra credit report

Ascribe the death of Edgar Allan pow to rabies through animal infection rather than to the traditionally maintained caused of alcoholism. Poe was found outside a baltimore saloon in an alcoholic stupor on october 3 1849 and died four days later. Dr Jonh J. mor5ans account of his final days given in a letter to poe's aunt and mother-in- law maria clemm a new york herald article in 1875 and a book by morgan in 1885. Ido not admit that the lack of bite or scrach is a week ness in my theory that Edgar allan poe may have died of rabies encephalitis. Data published by the centers for disease control and pervention indicate that over the past 20 years in the united states there have been 33 reported cases of human rabies yet only 24 percent of thease victims could recall an appropriate history of animal exposure. Finally although physicians knew how rabies was transmited at the time of poe's death even at hte time of Louis Pasteur's first use of rabies vaccine in 1885 the causative agent. Arhab dovirus was unknown.