Rabies in a human patient

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[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.

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/sho...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.



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:


More than 55,000 people around the world die every year from rabies.


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


We've voted to leave the EU anyway.

[rhiannon]

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

[Maintenance]

Scary shit...