This is really encouraging, IMO. -- Julia http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HUMAN_RABIES?SITE=TXBRY
Initial paragraphs: WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) -- A unique combination of drugs has made a 15-year-old girl the first known human to survive rabies without vaccination, doctors said. A team of physicians gambled on an experimental treatment and induced a coma in Jeanna Giese to stave off the usually fatal infection, said Dr. Rodney Willoughby, a pediatric disease infection specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. "No one had really done this before, even in animals," Willoughby said. "None of the drugs are fancy. If this works it can be done in a lot of countries." Only five people in the world before Jeanna are known to have survived rabies after the onset of symptoms, said Dr. Charles Rupprecht, chief of the rabies section at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But they had received standard treatment - a series of rabies vaccine shots - before experiencing symptoms. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
