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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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posted on
11/26/2004 5:40:49 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Amazing. But I hope that animal control doesn't have to intervene if she bites someone. :-)
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:42:38 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
To: ambrose
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:43:55 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(A plan is not a litany of complaints)
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.
To: neverdem
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:47:02 PM PST
by
Jean S
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To: JeanS
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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.)
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.
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:48:49 PM PST
by
zook
To: neverdem
You're very welcome. It's an amazing story.
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:50:47 PM PST
by
Jean S
To: anniegetyourgun
it can only be a miracle. Miracle today, routine tomorrow. A Miracle none-the-less.
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.
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posted on
11/26/2004 5:56:25 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
To: zook
I thought so too, wasn't it a little boy?
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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)
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.
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.
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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.)
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!!
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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)
To: aruanan
Yet more evidence of the needlessness of vaccines.
;-)
(long time no see)
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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)
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.
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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.)
To: Irrelevant
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posted on
11/26/2004 6:06:49 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(I think Kerry needs more cowbell.)
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.
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posted on
11/26/2004 6:07:09 PM PST
by
AirForceMom
(The purpose of life is to fight maturity)
To: Lawgvr1955; zook
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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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