Word: hydrophobia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gruesome and inexorable way it progresses once it takes hold of a victim. It attacks the nervous system, producing symptoms such as irrational furies, fearfulness and foaming at the mouth. The difficulty that patients have in swallowing water or food led to the disease's other common name: hydrophobia. Since the virus moves through the body inside nerve tissue rather than the blood, the disease triggers no antibodies and can't be detected during its incubation. Once it reaches the brain, death is virtually inevitable...