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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
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:24:17 1985
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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.
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						Byron C. Howes
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