 Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
[Re: Elaine Haynes ]
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Yes there is but not much chance of dying from it these days here in the USA unless you go untreated.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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#347545 - 10/22/2011 07:17 AM |
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There is a human rabies vaccine. Veterinarians and other folks expected to encounter the disease are vaccinated. It is (or was) as series of injections, titers were checked, then another injection until titers were protective.
Once you get the disease there is no treatment.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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Once rabies has been contracted, death is the usual outcome. However, there have been 3 documented cases (in the US) in which the person survived. They were treated with an experimental procedure and put into an induced coma. An 8 year old girl (who did not receive the usual rabies series following exposure) was the third case and treated in Sacramento. Here is the story.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/13/norcal-girl-survives-rabies-without-vaccination/
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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Once rabies has been contracted, death is the usual outcome. However, there have been 3 documented cases (in the US) in which the person survived. They were treated with an experimental procedure and put into an induced coma. An 8 year old girl (who did not receive the usual rabies series following exposure) was the third case and treated in Sacramento. Here is the story.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/13/norcal-girl-survives-rabies-without-vaccination/
Wow! I had not heard/read about this!
"Once rabies has been contracted, death is the usual outcome" certainly remains true, and without going into details, it's a bad death.
I think the last number I read was 50 million humans dead of rabies (worldwide) per year. (VERY few are in the United States -- a couple a year these days. But that's not because of treatment -- it's because of lowered exposure to rabid animals. (99% of human rabies deaths are dog-related, per the W.H.O.)
The CDC says:
Rabies is an acute, progressive, and fatal disease. The only documented survivors received rabies prophylaxis before the onset of illness. However, an aggressive approach to therapy might be attempted in patients who are in an early stage of clinical disease (1). A combination of therapies is suggested, including rabies vaccine, rabies immune globulin, ribavirin, interferon-alpha, mono clonal antibodies, and ketamine.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs099/en/
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5302a4.htm
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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THat is terrific news, I did not know that people ever survived, or if they might have squeaked by, I didn't think they were neurologically intact.
That is a tremendous medical advance, in our lifetimes.
It would take a wicked-smart clinician to even recognize the condition, even think of it, since it is so very rare in people.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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#351162 - 12/09/2011 01:10 PM |
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This has even reached mainstream TV.
"A Gifted Man," a series about a neuro surgeon, recently had an episode featuring a rabies patient and the Milwaukee protocol (which, as I understand it, and as Mary explained it, involves putting the patient into an induced coma to protect the brain and administering antiviral drugs and of course life support).
This dramatization did not have the patient live long enough for the protocol to be started, but it was still interesting that such an experimental protocol was featured and briefly explained on a TV series.
Piqued my interest; I'm reading more now about the Milwaukee protocol.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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#351163 - 12/09/2011 01:09 PM |
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... That is a tremendous medical advance, in our lifetimes.
It would take a wicked-smart clinician to even recognize the condition, even think of it, since it is so very rare in people.
Yes .... and perhaps a TV series episode about it will mean that more clinicians will consider the rabies possibility (as rare as it is) when they are thinking meningitis, etc.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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#351164 - 12/09/2011 01:37 PM |
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I think the last number I read was 50 million humans dead of rabies (worldwide) per year.
50 thousand. Which is still a lot of people. Worldwide mortality (total number of people who die every year from all causes) is closer to 50 million.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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#351165 - 12/09/2011 01:39 PM |
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I don't know how I typed million. LOL
I had just read it, too. It was 55,400-something.
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Re: Rabies diagnosed in Lincoln Co. Minnesota Oct.18th
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A kitten was diagnosed in Olmstead Co. Mn a week or so ago. A 4 mos old rescue kitten.
Skunks had been known to be around the place where the kitten was rescued from, and are thought to be the vector.
A whole bunch of folks had to have prophylaxis.
Olmstead Co is not "out there", it's the home of the Mayo Clinic, much of the CO is urban.
I wasn't going to post about it, but since the thread was up thought I'd update for people in my state.
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