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15-Year-Old Girl Survives Rabies Infection

Posted by timothy on from the not-quite-out-of-the-woods dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 15 y.o. girl in Wisconsin is the first known survivor of a rabies infection who did not receive the vaccine. She was placed into an induced coma while doctors gave her a cocktail of drugs to help her immune system fight the infection. (For those of us who don't realize this, rabies is considered 100% fatal once symptoms appear)."

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  1. Obviously her genes are unique... by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...and I'm offering to be first in line to help propagate them.

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  2. News? Nerds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or just random fluff?