Thursday, August 02, 2012

Rabies Not Always Fatal?



US News and World Report's HealthDay News reports:

Traveling to the Peruvian Amazon, where outbreaks of rabies infections are spurred by highly common vampire bats, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention learned that 10 percent of natives appeared to have survived exposure to the virus without any medical intervention. Another 11 percent were found to have antibodies in their blood that would neutralize rabies.

"This is a potential game-changer if the study is repeated successfully," said Dr. Rodney Willoughby Jr., a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the author of an editorial accompanying the research.

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1 comment:

  1. Mailey E. McLaughlin, M.Ed.6:50 PM

    Have you seen this? Looks pretty interesting.

    http://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0670023736/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344034147&sr=1-1&keywords=rabid

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