1st person ever survives rabies infection without vaccine. . .

[MySoS]

Originally posted by: NetGuySC

Just so you know...

If you see a racooon or skunk, that acts extremely friendly .... get your dog and yourself inside the house, then get gun and kill the crazy critter. If you must move it use gloves and afterward douse yourself, and anything that has touched that critter with clorox.

WTF never douse your self with bleach like this fool says.

 

[NetGuySC]

okay douse then wash off with water. I didnt say bathe in it ... most likely just use on hands then rinse, unless you decided to get jiggy with the critter

 

[VWhed]

I wonder if she had any long-term effects????

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: Amorphus

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
i think people need to know that rabies is one of those diseases previously known to be incurable. its like someoen surviving AIDS, ebola, and other incurable diseases. the diference is we have vaccines for rabies.

Ironically, I believe that in the mid-1980s, there was a man infected with ebola, and survived after several weeks in quarantine. In addition, there are women in Africa who work in that "special" industry who have been found to be immune to AIDS - i.e., they come into contact with HIV but do not contract the disease. 🙂



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but yes, rabies is a big no-no in the "curable diseases" category.

http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic626.htm
yeah..i agree with you here. they are not 100% incurable. several people survived ebola..the most deadly strain only has a 90% mortality rate.

The most highly lethal Ebola subtype is EBO-Z, which has been reported to have a mortality rate as high as 88%.

The EBO-S subtype has a reported mortality rate of 50%, similar to that of the Ebola outbreak in Gabon, where the mortality rate was 57-66%.

now the thing with AIDs/HIV...sadly some of those resistant women developed infections.

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/oct1/nairobi.htm
a couple of the ''HIV-resistant'' women they were studying became HIV-positive between 1996 and 1999.[4] The startling fact, however, was that the ones who became infected, unlike the 90% who were still HIV-free, had actually started using protection, so that they were no longer exposing themselves to the virus!

there is an actual mutation that makes you resistant to HIV infection. this paper is highly techinical but the title is:

Distribution of three HIV-1 resistance-conferring polymorphisms (SDF1-3'A, CCR2-641, and CCR5-delta32) in global populations.

It is known that a 32-bp-deleted CCR5 mutant (CCR5-Delta32) plays a critical role in resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/en...amp;list_uids=11175286

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
She got bit by a fricking bat!!!

According to WebMD, most cases were associated with bats.

 

[booger711]

 

[Mallow]

The virus could still be lying dormant in her nerve ganglia. At some random point in the future it might flare back up just like chicken pox flares as shingles.