On another note, a young lady was released from the hospital the other day. She had been bitten by a bat. A rabid bat. She never got the injections, and suffered through it, and lived.
The first known person in all of history to survive rabies.
A fellow I used to know got a nasty cut, and just ignored it, so I asked him.
Seems years back he had gotten ill and went to the doctor. The quack examined him and prescribed antibiotics but didn't have a clue. About 36 hours later, my friend was in intensive care, getting weaker all the time.
A visiting doctor from Seoul Korea or some such stuck his head in the door, and started screaming in Korean. When he calmed down enough, he said "tetanus".
My friend survived as well. And has lifelong immunity to tetanus.
Rabies is still the most deadly virus though. Ebola and HIV and machupo (and hanta, etc.) aren't as deadly. Rabies has had an upsurge due to hunters moving wild animals from one part of the country to another (to increase herd sizes, although "herd" may not be the best term for raccoons.)
I propose a "masque of raccoons" to go along with "murder of crows" and "flourish of strumpets" etc.