Rabies in a human patient

[Root]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxsYLbphyAI

[Root]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgEfcV1DE-c

[Root]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6N6DfA4GN0

[Dandelion]

Survival chance <0.01%. Only one survivor has been recorded in mankind's history. Glad rabies has been rooted out of Belgium and the Netherlands, but still very common in most parts of the world.

[Marzipan]

That was difficult, to see someone die from rabies. I didn't know there was fear of water. I thought it was fear of swallowing.
Brutal way to die. :(

[Peterski]

Only one survivor has been recorded in mankind's history.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdPuXHhEwDk

There are more survivors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Induced_coma


In 2004, American teenager Jeanna Giese survived an infection of rabies unvaccinated. She was placed into an induced coma upon onset of symptoms and given ketamine, midazolam, ribavirin, and amantadine. Her doctors administered treatment based on the hypothesis that detrimental effects of rabies were caused by temporary dysfunctions in the brain and could be avoided by inducing a temporary partial halt in brain function that would protect the brain from damage while giving the immune system time to defeat the virus. After 31 days of isolation and 76 days of hospitalization, Giese was released from the hospital.[70] She survived with all higher level brain functions, but an inability to walk and balance.[71] On a podcast of NPR's Radiolab, Giese recounted: "I had to learn how to stand and then to walk, turn around, move my toes. I was really, after rabies, a new born baby who couldn't do anything. I had to relearn that all...mentally I knew how to do stuff but my body wouldn't cooperate with what I wanted it to do. It definitely took a toll on me psychologically. You know I'm still recovering. I'm not completely back. Stuff like balance, and I can't run normally."[72]

Giese's treatment regimen became known as the Milwaukee protocol, which has since undergone revision with the second version omitting the use of ribavirin. Two of 25 patients survived when treated under the first protocol. A further 10 patients have been treated under the revised protocol, with a further two survivors.[15]

On June 12, 2011, Precious Reynolds, an eight-year-old girl from Humboldt County, California, became the third reported person in the United States to have recovered from rabies without receiving PEP.[73]

[Hithaeglir]

Survival chance <0.01%. Only one survivor has been recorded in mankind's history. Glad rabies has been rooted out of Belgium and the Netherlands, but still very common in most parts of the world.

It is endemic in Greece again,after decades of being thought as an eradicated disease.It was again introduced either from Fyrom or Albania.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Rabies is one of the most terrifying ways of dying. It's virtually extinct in the British Isles.

I previously made a thread about Great Britain which has always prided itself as an island with one of the lowest rates of rabies in the world due to the strict quarantine laws on pets entering the UK. http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?167733-Great-Britain-(A-Nation-Where-Rabies-Is-Virtually-Extinct)-Now-Risks-Rabies-Due-To-The-EU-Laws

The EU forced the UK to relax the UK's strict quarantine laws which has led to a fear of rabies from continental Europe.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/70549000/jpg/_70549652_dog4.jpg

If people take their pets to countries such as France or on continental Europe where rabies incidents are higher - especially in eastern Europe, a person's pet could be bitten by some wild stray animal in continental Europe with rabies. There's a risk the pet could be brought back into our island with rabies, which is why animals were routinely placed in quarantine on their return to the UK until they were thoroughly checked and cleared.

The Dogs Trust charity and thef famous Battersea Dogs Home is now considering offering rabies vaccinations to front-line staff in the UK as a precautionary measure since the EU forced the UK to relax our strict laws. Same way we have compulsory laws for all dogs and cats to be microchipped for free so that their owners can be traced.

A 2010 wildlife map of rabies incidents in Europe:
http://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/images/graphics/rabies_2010.png

More than 55,000 people around the world die every year from rabies.
http://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/media/298542/global_rabies_ith2009riskmap_500x285.jpg

Only a few countries in the world are free from rabies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHv3wSYi9PA

We've voted to leave the EU anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwbu5kU-v4

[rhiannon]

Rabies is nearly always lethal if you reach the point of exhibiting symptoms.

[Maintenance]

Scary shit...

[Dandelion]

I remember seeing on television a guy entering the hospital who was unable to drink, was feverish, had a sore throat, had hypomanic tempers, etc... The doctor asked him whether he was bitten by an animal and his answer "yes, when I visited the US with my GF I got bitten by a raccoon".

He didn't survive obviously. The only thing they could do for him was ease his pain. He married his GF before he passed away.

That's one 'downside' of the disease having been rooted out here. People can be ignorant about it's existence elsewhere. Had he visited a doctor in the US, he still had been alive today.

[♥ Lily ♥]

'There have been no cases of rabies in the UK for more than a century since 1902, apart from one single case in 2002 of a man who died in Scotland after he was bitten by an rabid bat that flew into the UK. The last recorded case of rabies in the UK was in 2012. The patient, who died, contracted the disease after being bitten by a dog in India.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2509375.stm

From the UK's NHS site (National Health Service)



Quarantine and the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS)

The movement of potentially infected animals across borders into uninfected regions is controlled by strictly enforcing quarantine regulations. Animals that don't have a licence shouldn't be brought into the UK.

The Pet Travel Scheme is a system that allows pet dogs, cats and ferrets from certain countries to enter the UK without going into quarantine as long as they have been vaccinated. It also means people in the UK can take their dogs, cats and ferrets to other European Union (EU) countries and return with them to the UK.

More information can be found on the GOV.UK website.

How common is human rabies?

There are an estimated 60,000 deaths from human rabies each year worldwide. Most cases occur in the developing world, particularly in Africa and Asia.

As a result of strict UK quarantine laws regarding transporting animals, as well as the introduction of the Pet Travel Scheme, the UK has been rabies-free since the beginning of the 20th century, with the exception of a rabies-like virus in a single species of bat.

There have been no cases of human rabies acquired in the UK since 1902, apart from a case of rabies acquired in a bat-handler from an infected bat in 2002. The last recorded case of rabies in the UK was in 2012. The patient, who died, contracted the disease after being bitten by a dog in India.

Page last reviewed: 17/02/2015
Next review due: 17/02/2017

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Rabies/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[♥ Lily ♥]

'Australia and New Zealand are free of rabies. There have been two confirmed human deaths from the disease, in 1987 and 1990 in Australia. Both were contracted overseas and outside of the nation. There is also a report of an 1867 case. There has been professional concern that the arrival of rabies in Australia is likely given its wide presence in Australian's neighbour Indonesia.'

http://www.travelclinic.co.nz/vaccinations/91-rabies.html