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cb1000rider wrote:

jmra wrote: hopefully some of the research they are doing will improve the survival rate for those who don't get the vaccine.

I think they've been researching it for years. Apparently the experimental procedure involves cooling people down long enough (near death) for the anti-virals to do the job.
I don't know if it was indicated above, but that procedure has a very low success rate.

The Milwaukee protocol currently has a 14% success rate. Low? Yes, but much higher than 0% prior to the procedure and continued refinement of the protocol should increase the success rate. There have been 35 treated with the protocol. The first 25 saw only 1 survivor (which was actually the first person the protocol was attempted on). The first refinement of the protocol has been attempted on 10 subjects with 2 survivors (20%). The first subject of the 35 was treated in 2004. So over a 10 year period we have seen the success rate climb to 20%.

rotor wrote:

jmra wrote:

rotor wrote:Terrible way to go. I believe in all recorded history there has been only one person to survive the actual disease.

Looks like there is at least 6.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... 5VDnpK9KSM
"Earlier this month, 8-year-old Precious Reynolds of California became only the sixth person known to survive rabies without receiving a vaccine shortly after infection. At the University of California Davis Children's Hospital doctors treated Reynolds with the Milwaukee protocol – an experimental procedure that plunges the patient into a drug-induced coma, taking the brain "offline" while the immune system scours the virus from infected neurons."

I guess I haven't kept up. Still one terrible disease that almost nobody lives through. Thanks for the additional info.

hopefully some of the research they are doing will improve the survival rate for those who don't get the vaccine.

rotor wrote:Terrible way to go. I believe in all recorded history there has been only one person to survive the actual disease.

Looks like there is at least 6.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... 5VDnpK9KSM
"Earlier this month, 8-year-old Precious Reynolds of California became only the sixth person known to survive rabies without receiving a vaccine shortly after infection. At the University of California Davis Children's Hospital doctors treated Reynolds with the Milwaukee protocol – an experimental procedure that plunges the patient into a drug-induced coma, taking the brain "offline" while the immune system scours the virus from infected neurons."

They should have documented his illness progression in a video and distributed it along the border towns. Start a rumor that the border is infested with rabid animals.