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Girl Is First to Survive Rabies Without a Shot
NY Times ^ | November 25, 2004 | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Posted on 11/26/2004 5:40:48 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 11/26/2004 5:40:49 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Amazing. But I hope that animal control doesn't have to intervene if she bites someone. :-)


2 posted on 11/26/2004 5:42:38 PM PST by Viking2002 (Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
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To: ambrose

Rabies Ping!


3 posted on 11/26/2004 5:43:55 PM PST by JennysCool (A plan is not a litany of complaints)
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To: neverdem

Given the pathobiology of rabies, I think this article is a testament to the power of prayer....not the experimental treatment. It simply can't be done at the stage the article claims the patient had reached - it can only be a miracle.


4 posted on 11/26/2004 5:46:34 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: neverdem
Related thread:

Gamble pays off for rabies patient; Teen first to survive without vaccination

5 posted on 11/26/2004 5:47:02 PM PST by Jean S
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To: JeanS

Thanks for the link.


7 posted on 11/26/2004 5:48:34 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that your dead.)
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To: neverdem

They keep saying this is the "first." But I'm certain there was another rabies survival story sometime in the last 5-10 years. At that time they said *that* was the first.


8 posted on 11/26/2004 5:48:49 PM PST by zook
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To: neverdem

You're very welcome. It's an amazing story.


9 posted on 11/26/2004 5:50:47 PM PST by Jean S
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To: anniegetyourgun
it can only be a miracle.

Miracle today, routine tomorrow. A Miracle none-the-less.

10 posted on 11/26/2004 5:50:54 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: zook
It is generally considered that, once symptoms develop, rabies virus infection in humans is invariably fatal. Nonetheless, there are rare published accounts of partial and near-full recovery of children and adults: the most recent being "Madhusudana, S.N. et al. 2002. Partial recovery from rabies in a six-year-old girl. Int J Infect Dis. 6(1):85-6."

I will try to find a better article. This one sites the International Journal of Infectious Disease.

11 posted on 11/26/2004 5:56:25 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
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To: zook

I thought so too, wasn't it a little boy?


12 posted on 11/26/2004 5:56:26 PM PST by AirForceMom ("A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every dif)
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To: Labyrinthos

Miracle - as in suspension of the natural order by Divine intervention. Example: parting of the Red Sea - never to be routine tomorrow, or any other day.


13 posted on 11/26/2004 5:56:45 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Irrelevant

I think there were a couple of cases where the victim got the vaccine, came down with the symptoms but survived anyway. This is the first case of someone surviving without any vaccine.


14 posted on 11/26/2004 5:59:44 PM PST by KarlInOhio (In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Yeah, I was just reading up on it, she's the first with out vaccine intervention. The few others had the vaccine after symptoms. Hardy girl!!
15 posted on 11/26/2004 6:01:37 PM PST by AirForceMom ("A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every dif)
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To: aruanan
Yet more evidence of the needlessness of vaccines.

;-)

(long time no see)

16 posted on 11/26/2004 6:02:16 PM PST by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: neverdem
Her father, John Giese, said he was grateful to the doctors and their novel treatment, but added that prayer had made the crucial difference.

Perhaps it gave the doctors some inspiriation, but I think most of the credit should go to the doctors and modern medicine.

17 posted on 11/26/2004 6:06:44 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal Creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.)
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To: Irrelevant
Try this article. Not sure if vaccine given. Sounds like some type of miracle med.
18 posted on 11/26/2004 6:06:49 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
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To: TomB

It's funny, my kids are all freaking out because our son and his family are home for a visit before he goes to Baghdad..........he got a small pox shot before coming here. Everyone is afraid to take a bath after he does, so I do it. I'm old enough to have had the shot, my other kids have not. The hypochondriac is coming out in all of them.


19 posted on 11/26/2004 6:07:09 PM PST by AirForceMom (The purpose of life is to fight maturity)
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To: Lawgvr1955; zook
Partial recovery from rabies in a six-year-old girl.

Too bad it's only cited as a case report in a letter to the journal.

20 posted on 11/26/2004 6:09:29 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that your dead.)
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