Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Survivor

Via ProMED-mail: Regarding a recent case of symptomatic rabies, the aptly-named Wish TV reports on the Indiana State Department of Health's wild optimism.

"Historically it's a near fatal disease and so it's always touch and go, but given treatment today we're hopeful that this individual is going to survive this case," said Dr. Judith Monroe, Indiana State Department of Health.


By "near-fatal" Dr. Monroe means "only one person has ever survived": see Recovery of a Patient from Clinical Rabies --- Wisconsin, 2004.

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