Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!abc From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.med Subject: Re: Viral infections: Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! Message-ID: <774@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 22:11:21 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.774 Posted: Sat Aug 17 22:11:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:34:05 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <2050@ukma.UUCP> Reply-To: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper (CTAB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.followup:5208 net.med:2110 In article <2050@ukma.UUCP> sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) writes: >In article <191@tekig5.UUCP> davidl@tekig5.UUCP (David Levadie) writes: > >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 UUCP: sean@ukma.UUCP or >- Department of Mathematics {cbosgd,anlams,hasmed}!ukma!sean >- University of Kentucky ARPA: ukma!sean@ANL-MCS.ARPA Sorry, Sean. What your friend got was a vaccine to PREVENT rabies, much like vaccines that prevent polio or other virus infections. I'm willing to bet that your friend showed no rabies symptoms. At present, there is a patient at The Johns Hopkins Hospital who might have contracted rabies. Beyond life support, there is nothing to be done. Brint