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!linus!gatech!akgua!mcnc!bch From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viruses (esp. rabies) Message-ID: <725@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 23:33:44 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.725 Posted: Sat Aug 17 23:33:44 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:23:38 EDT References: <140@drutx.UUCP> <713@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <388@bbncc5.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 18 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.) -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch