Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!slb From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies) Message-ID: <140@drutx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 17:15:51 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.140 Posted: Mon Aug 12 17:15:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:21:26 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 25 > >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. >- Sean Casey > Sorry, that's not a cure. That is prevention. If the shots had been delayed, and she had gotten rabies, she would be quite dead. Rabies has a long lead time between introduction of the virus and the time when it gets to where it does the damage. In that time, prevention is still possible. Rabies is not curable. -- Sue Brezden Real World: Room 1B17 Net World: ihnp4!drutx!slb AT&T Information Systems 11900 North Pecos Westminster, Co. 80234 (303)538-3829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your god may be dead, but mine aren't. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~