Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: RABIES IS A PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASE ! Message-ID: <500@baylor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:19:39 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.500 Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:19:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 05:40:55 EDT References: <2062@ukma.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 16 > 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 UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076