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  • (WI)Teen first to survive (rabies)without vaccination

    11/24/2004 6:55:20 AM PST · by UB355 · 15 replies · 2,531+ views
    Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 11/24/2004 | KAWANZA L. GRIFFIN
    Her fragile nervous system was rapidly deteriorating when Milwaukee doctors tested fate and allowed her body to develop natural immunity against the deadly rabies virus. And on Tuesday, the gamble paid off as doctors declared Jeanna Giese the first person to survive rabies without prior vaccination. The 15-year-old Fond du Lac teen - who had been in grave condition and on a ventilator for a month - is now in an intermediate care unit for intensive rehabilitation. She's weak, can't move or talk, but most important to her parents, she's still alive. "I told the doctors, this is the one...