Saliva

The Kiss of Death It was such an idyllic scene, a picnic in the Chantilly woods with the family and the dog, and it had such disastrous consequences: the spread of rabies into Britain. It is not just animals that can be carries of this hideous death, but also human beings. The virus, present in saliva, can be transmitted just by a kiss... The dog bit its master, who passed the disease and the madness to his mistress. She was the wife of the British Prime Minister and her rabid, slavering collapse at an international conference in Brighton caused public panic and private pain – and revealed all too clearly a network of diplomatic infidelities. While scientists searched for the source of the contagion and newspapers howled for action and incited violence, picnickers were pouring into Chantilly...