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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless!
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:14:36 EDT
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> 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.

Rabies is, for all intents and purposes, fatal once the virus has invaded
the nervous system.  Your friend was probably treated immediately after
the bite with rabies antiserum followed by a three weeks of daily vaccine
injections.  The whole point of this aggressive treatment is to neutralize
any rabies virus through the use of antiserum (made from horses, I think)
and to then cause the production of one's own antibodies through vaccination.

Your friend (luckily) never had rabies, and was never "cured" of it.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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