Human rabies death in Corpus Christi

[philip964]

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In 2010 there were two reported rabies cases in Humans, but apparently no deaths.

[jmra]

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.

[Sniper John]

That's a rough way to go. I don't think I would wish it on my worst enemy.

[rotor]

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

[jmra]

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."

[rotor]

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.

[Fuchs]

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.

Chupacabra?

[anygunanywhere]

A few years back I was working in deep Sout Mexico in the state of Tabasco. I was improving on my Spanish by reading the local newspaper. There was an article in the paper about a shortage of rabies vaccine in the country. The ranchers could not vaccinate all of the beef cattle so they were worried about rabid cattle making it into the food chain.

I like my beef rare.

I quickly began ordering my meat charred or else ate seafood.

Anygunanywhere

[jmra]

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.

[puma guy]

My father warned me that rabies could become more prevalent due to a lot of people not vaccinating their dogs. He would turn people away, because they didn't have vaccination records and refused to vaccinate their pet before having a procedure done. I haven't looked at stats to see if his prediction is reality or not.

[cb1000rider]

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.

It's kinda a messed up thing. My wife has been bitten three times in the last couple of years. Twice in the neighborhood while running, no real damage, but a real rabies danger. Most of these dogs aren't vaccinated, so do you spin up the whole dog and pony show with the sheriff? Or do you take somewhat drastic steps to prevent a bite from a little dog that can't do any life-threatening harm? Ahh.. the joys of country life..

[jmra]

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%.