This is not good Poor Kid

I hope he is one who can pull through this. My children would never tell me if something had bit them when they were young. They were afraid I would do something.

More breaking news. High School Student

Very good. They have enough to worry about with a sick child.

Girl Cured of Rabies With New Treatment

WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Doctors say they used a unique combination of drugs to cure a 15-year-old girl of rabies, making her the first known human ever to survive the usually fatal disease without vaccination.

A team of doctors gambled on an experimental treatment and induced a coma in Jeanna Giese to stave off the rabies infection, said Dr. Rodney Willoughby, a pediatric disease infection specialist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

"No one had really done this before, even in animals," Willoughby said. "None of the drugs are fancy. If this works it can be done in a lot of countries."

Only five people in the world before Giese are known to have survived the rabies virus after the onset of symptoms, said Dr. Charles Rupprecht, chief of the rabies section at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

more here

We needed some good news.

I agree I had to post that after remembering all the bad stuff that was posted about rabies

Hopefully the treatment will work more then once on others who have rabies and is not just a fluke as it would be great to be able to save those like in the previous stories that were posted .

Hey! I'm too cheap to pay for regular rabies shots. Where's my controversial new treatment? I got rabies like a mofo!

And am I the only one who thought the title said, "Girl Cured of Rabies With New Testament"? I was thinking, "What the hell?! Did they beat the rabies out with a big fat bible?

Wes man your Rabies is really flaring up agin, Good thing your herpes has stayed in check though

Did you just take that pic man cause I think its going up at home as my new desktop.

ANd yeah I thought the same thing about the rabies and new testiment thing, I was thinking they were gonna pawn it off as a holy healing thing though.

Yes, I took that picture last night. If you want I can send you the hi-res version instead of this tiny one. Behold my evilness!

I read a few years ago about a little boy in Texas who was cured of rabies. THe doctors said a lot of deaths are from this virulant type of pneumonia that comes along with the rabies.

But maybe I dreamed it....I can't find anything online.

Rabies, once the signs are visible, I thought was incurable. It would drive you insane from what I understood.

Looks like she'll beat it.

looks good

She came home today

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HUMAN_RABIES?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Very good news 2dogs. They must be some pretty good docs.