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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies)
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Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 23:33:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 17 23:33:44 1985
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In article <388@bbncc5.UUCP> sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>
>Tetanus kills with its symptoms--if agressive enough treatment is
>instituted, the person can weather the effects of the toxin.
>Rabies is another matter.  Treating the symptoms can often suppress
>them, but the patient almost never recovers.  Apparently, the damage
>to the CNS is too great.

Thanks for jogging my memory.  You are correct, it was tetanus I was
thinking of, not rabies.  I will now go and put all of my old Science
Newses into chronological order as penance.  (I only post this message
as I think there are too few people who admit they are wrong in this 
groupt and in netnews in general.)

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						Byron C. Howes
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