What is the name of the only person in the world to survive rabies?!
Question: What is the name of the only person in the world to survive rabies.?
I just met her and shook her hand after a Jeff Corwin show, didn't ask her what here name was though.
what is it.?
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what is it.?
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Answers:
Jeanna Giese- but she is the only person to have survived rabies WITHOUT the vaccine. 5 other people have survived rabies after the onset of symptoms but they all had vaccine failure.Health Question & Answer
There are six reported cases of human rabies where the victim survived.
The sixth known case was in a girl (15 years old at the time) in Wisconsin.
See reference (where the other five cases are briefly mentioned in the text).
In any medical publication, the name would never be used, so I cannot tell you that. But it was quite a remarkable report - see reference.
The Wisconsin teen WAS the first -ever survivor who had neither recieved pre-exposure vaccination, NOR post-exposure vaccination, and survived using an induced coma, amantadine, and ribavirin treatment. (ref 1)
Of interest, the MMWR in 2006 reported two other cases, one in Indiana, one in California, where the same kind of treatments were given, but in both cases the patients died. (ref 2)
So the Wisconsin case seems to be a personal miracle, rather than an insight into any reliable medical treatment for rabies.... stay tuned. I think if I were to meet her, I'd ask her for forgiveness, and to heal me -- because something much more than medication touched that young lady.Health Question & Answer
The sixth known case was in a girl (15 years old at the time) in Wisconsin.
See reference (where the other five cases are briefly mentioned in the text).
In any medical publication, the name would never be used, so I cannot tell you that. But it was quite a remarkable report - see reference.
The Wisconsin teen WAS the first -ever survivor who had neither recieved pre-exposure vaccination, NOR post-exposure vaccination, and survived using an induced coma, amantadine, and ribavirin treatment. (ref 1)
Of interest, the MMWR in 2006 reported two other cases, one in Indiana, one in California, where the same kind of treatments were given, but in both cases the patients died. (ref 2)
So the Wisconsin case seems to be a personal miracle, rather than an insight into any reliable medical treatment for rabies.... stay tuned. I think if I were to meet her, I'd ask her for forgiveness, and to heal me -- because something much more than medication touched that young lady.Health Question & Answer