Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!bch From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies) Message-ID: <713@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:24:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.713 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:24:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:11:56 EDT References: <140@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 18 Summary: In article <140@drutx.UUCP> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes: > >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. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but I think that it isn't rabies that kills, it is the symptoms. If an individual with rabies can be treated for the symptoms the disease itself will run its course. I seem to remember that this has been done in at least one case with no long-term harm to the victim. I'd appreciate a followup if I'm remembering incorrectly. -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch