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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless!
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 15:27:55 EDT
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> In article <191@tekig5.UUCP> davidl@tekig5.UUCP (David Levadie) writes:
> >...
> >any screaming and yelling about it.  Look at rabies, for instance.  How 
> >long has it been with us?  I think there's finally been a recorded
> >case of a rabies victim surviving, in the U.S., under intensive care.
> 
> 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, per se, is nearly incurable.  However, the virus is quite a slow
starter, so that if you are bitten by a rabid animal and start the shots
immediately, you will be immune by the time the rabies virus really gets
going.

Once the virus gets going, however, it is very dangerous.  I believe that
the total of survived cases is up to about 4, worldwide.


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