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[_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)20:38:38 No.2834566
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>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)21:07:12 No.2834582
Wonder if this guy would have survived today. Don't look like he got any IV fluids or other
treatments to keep him alive.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)21:13:18 No.2834586
>>2834582
I think if the rabies reaches the brain even today you will eventually die. As far as I know
there is no cure.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)21:16:58 No.2834589
>>2834582
Today, the animal would have been caught and tested, and upon testing positive anyone that came
into contact with the animal would be given prophylactic antibiotics to prevent the onset of
rabies.
Once you show syptoms of rabies it's too late, and there is no cure.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)21:18:40 No.2834593
this is taking place at l'Institut de Louis Pasteur and the doctor looks like a young Nicolas
Sarkozy. coincidence?
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)21:47:41 No.2834625
>>2834582
rabies is almost always fatal. poor fucker was doomed.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)22:02:26 No.2834637
>>2834582
if you're really quick about getting treatment, I think you'll be fine, but you have to get
treatment immediately after a bite, before symptoms start.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)22:41:25 No.2834673
>>2834582
>>2834589
>>2834586
>>2834625
>>2834637
Antibiotics do nothing against rabies because it is a virus, not a bacterium/etc. An antiviral
might help, but this is unlikely unless it can target rabies' replication. I don't know of one
that works.
Once rabies becomes symptomatic the survival rate is close to zero. Only a handful of animals
have survived, all with permanent neurological damage.
Rabies has a long incubation period, which spans between a few days and several years. For this
reason, a rabies vaccine can be administered and the patient is likely to recover and never
develop rabies symptoms. Rabies also only develops in a handful of possible cases. It's not
entirely clear whether the virus is just not that compatible with humans, or if our immune system
is just good at handling it. Regardless, it appears to affect nearly all vertebrates, especially
dogs and bats. For this reason, if you are ever bit by a wild animal or a violent dog, it's
standard procedure to attempt to capture the animal and test it for rabies, but your treatment as
the human patient begins immediately since you could be dead within fifty two hours.
>> [_] Anonymous 07/05/15(Sun)22:48:44 No.2834677
>>2834673
i volunteered to be a rabies patient on my drivers license
