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To: exDemMom
But rabies, if you are exposed and start to show symptoms, is 100% fatal.

Not quite 100%. The Milwaukee protocol has shown some success in treating symptomatic rabies infection. A few dozen people have survived rabies.

It doesn't work all the time, but if I were bit and started to show symptoms, I'd give it a go!

25 posted on 01/16/2024 8:13:43 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: null and void
I am well aware of the Milwaukee protocol.

It has saved a handful of symptomatic rabies patients. Most patients who were treated with this protocol died anyway.

According to this (non-medical) website, only 29 people have ever survived symptomatic rabies, and most of those survivors had some sort of pre- or postexposure prophylaxis.

How Many People Have Survived Rabies? Every year, approximately 59,000 people worldwide die from rabies. Vital Signs: Trends in Human Rabies Deaths and Exposures — United States, 1938–2018.

The chance of survival of symptomatic rabies is so low that I would not casually refuse prophylaxis in case of exposure in the confidence that I can be cured if I show symptoms. There is a reason rabies is so feared and there are multiple efforts to control rabies.

One of my friends actually was personally involved in the handling of a fatal human rabies case. There was a paper published on it.

55 posted on 01/16/2024 1:23:44 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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