Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viral infections: Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! Message-ID: <357@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:14:36 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.357 Posted: Wed Aug 14 00:14:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:00:55 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <2050@ukma.UUCP> Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 > Uh, rabies is quite curable. A friend of mine was once bitten by a dog that > turned out to have rabies. She got a LOT of shots. Rabies is, for all intents and purposes, fatal once the virus has invaded the nervous system. Your friend was probably treated immediately after the bite with rabies antiserum followed by a three weeks of daily vaccine injections. The whole point of this aggressive treatment is to neutralize any rabies virus through the use of antiserum (made from horses, I think) and to then cause the production of one's own antibodies through vaccination. Your friend (luckily) never had rabies, and was never "cured" of it. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA