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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: RABIES IS A PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASE !
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:19:39 EDT
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> The conclusion was that the "survivors" just happened to have
> sufficient immunological reserves to hold the Rabies virus at bay.
> Apparently, during the time they lived  following the injection,
> they were healthy carriers.  When their reserves were depleted by
> psycho-social stress they shifted down the "bell curve of immunity"
> until they crossed the threshold limit of resistance to the Rabies
> virus already existing in their brains.

This does not in any way contradict current theory. It's a well known
fact that stress decreases ones resistence to disease. However this does
not imply that a stress-free life will produce immunity to a disease.
What about all the rats who died? Were they just worry-warts?
-- 
	Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva
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