The Girl Who Survived Rabies

You Tube ^ | December 19, 2013 | Documentary

[beaversmom]

I think rabies is about the worst disease out there. Thanks for your expert, firsthand experience about it.

[Secret Agent Man]

if you catch it before it develops you can survive it. you take a series of uncomfortable shots.

[Varda]

Right during the incubation period, the shots are very effective. The CDC stats and the story above are about people who’ve developed full blown rabies (clinical). It’s very rare to survive that.

[Bikkuri]

Anytime hon.. all I can think is, delicate.. but tough as nails ;)

[vetvetdoug]

In 1974 the treatment was Duck Egg embryo vaccine and I took a gamma globulin injection and 18+ additional vaccinations in the arms, legs, abdominal, and any muscle that could accommodate an injection. It was painful. In 1983 I was again exposed and it was only six human diploid injections and a gamma globulin injection that were not as painful. My titre was off the scale for several years after the 1983 incident. I get a booster every five years anyway. Incubation for rabies can be as long as a year as there have been cases that forensically identified the exposure 12 months beforehand.

[ottbmare]

Part of the reason survival is so rare is that it’s easy to be infected and not be aware of it until too late.

I was bitten by a bat about four years ago. Hardly felt it—it would have been easy to not notice. Of course I had shots. I bloody well felt those.

[Bikkuri]

WOW.. did not know that :/ I would be terrified for a few years after :/
As much as I went around chasing stuff (on horseback.. and hunting on foot..in Texas), I am probably lucky I was never exposed to rabies.

[doorgunner69]

Y'all rag on Hawaii a lot, mostly deserved, but they do have an ironclad policy on keeping rabies out of the islands.

Makes bringing pets over a chore, but a relief once they are here and you realize they are not indanger of being bitten by anything rabid.

[GeronL]

Except a leftist