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From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless!
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Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 22:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 17 22:11:21 1985
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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.
>
>
>-- 
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>-  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