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> rabies leads to death in 100%

That is not true anymore. There are two known protocols with a small chance of working but which have already saved about a few dozen lives. They are called "the Milwaukee protocol" and "the Recife protocol" after the cities they were developed.

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Not sure about the Recife protocol, but it's pretty much accepted now that the Milwaukee protocol doesn't work[1][2] - the initial case may have been some other encephalitis mimicking rabies.

[1] https://journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/2015/06000/the__milwa...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...

Back when I was a paramedic, I HAD a rabies patient that survived using the Milwaukee protocol.

It doesn't work very well... but it does seem like it occasionally works.

That's amazing.

How did you get that “the initial case may have been some other encephalitis mimicking rabies.” from the decond paper paper?

AFAICT The paper questions the hypothesis that the 2 additional survivors had rabies, but not the first patient.

Your second link is an error 404, page not found.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-...

How did you get that “the initial case may have been some other encephalitis mimicking rabies.” from that paper?

AFAICT The paper questions the hypothesis that the 2 additional survivors had rabies, but not the first patient.

You may want to reply to drunkendog so they see your question.

Oh I didn't pay attention that you weren't the original poster of that link, thanks for pointing that out!

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