He'd been on duty the night it had its first major African rabies outbreak.

That's what everyone ended up calling it, right, " African rabies."

When I first heard about the outbreaks, back when it was still called African rabies, I saw the opportunity of a lifetime.

Was I supposed to really believe his crazy story that African rabies was actually some new plague that transformed dead bodies into bloodthirsty cannibals?

After a while I started to uncover more useful data: cases of "rabies" similar to Cape Town...it wasn't called African rabies until later.