Posted on 01/15/2018 3:03:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
6-year-old Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday
A 6-year-old Florida boy who was undergoing experimental treatment after being diagnosed with rabies has died.
Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday.
Roque had been undergoing the treatment, called the Milwaukee protocol, after he was scratched by a bat. His father, Henry Roque, had found the sick bat and put it in a bucket, telling his son not to touch it.
"So, apparently he put his hand in there and touched it and he said it only scratched him, so I frantically googled it real quick and it says to wash his hands with soap, hot water for five minutes," Henry Roque told NBC News.
When Ryker complained of numb fingers and a headache a week later, he was rushed to the hospital. Ryker was put into a medically induced coma, forcing his body to create its own specialized antibodies to fight off the illness.
The treatment has only worked twice in the U.S. and 18 times around the world.
That is singularly the biggest piece of garbage I have read on the internet lately.
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Considering what that is coming from, no surprise, thanks for the affirmation!
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Ditto
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The touted 90% “success” rate for the shots is the 90% who were “suspected” of being infected, but not actually infected.
For those actually infected, death is the most likely outcome with the shots.
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Still not sure where that info is coming from. Not trying to argue with you, but if a stray isn’t found or an animal is out in the wild, like a bat, the person bitten, as a precaution, will receive the shots. I never heard, during that time or now, of patients dying because they received the shots.
Very well said, too! Agreed.
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You don’t have to get biten.
People that have simply touched a suspected rabid animal are put through the shots. That is the sole source of their claimed successes.
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