Wisconsin Rabies Victim Goes Home - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source: "When 15-year-old Jeanna Giese of Fond du Lac, WI was bitten by a bat at a church function on September 12, she didn't think much of it. But weeks later, when she began exhibiting signs of the disease, from which there is normally no cure, Giese was hospitalized in serious condition. Doctors at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee did not give up, however, and began a course of experimental treatment to try and save the girl.
Giese was placed in an induced coma and administered a combination of drugs to fight the infection. Doctors were optimistic, but it wasn't until she reawakened from the coma, that they were able to determine she had recovered fully and shows no signs of the long-term damage. She will continue to receive therapy at home.
Over the weekend, Giese was released from the hospital. In a statment, the hospital said that Giese was '...the first person in the world to survive the disease without receiving a vaccination after infection.'
Doctors are hopeful that this new 'cocktail' can be used in other countries where rabies poses a continuing threat to the population. "
1 comment:
I once had a close encounter with a bat.
It's a semi-sexy, semi-scary memory...or it was, now it will be totally scary, hello rabies, that's awful. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like rabies.
J
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