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According to this study[1], there have been about 20 reported survivors worldwide. Because it's so rare in countries with the medical infrastructure to report t

• cge 5y ago
  >Because it's so rare in countries with the medical infrastructure to report these things, it's probably pretty hard to infer the actual survival rate. I'm reasonably certain that rabies without intensive treatment (Milwaukee or Recife or similar, the topics of that study) has had no recorded survivors after exhibiting symptoms, ever, in all the thousands of years it has been known. Given how technically intensive the treatment is, anyone performing it likely has the infrastructure to report on the treatment as well, and so I expect that study likely does include most treatment attempts. With that said, cases slipping through pre-symptomatic discovery and treatment are so rare in countries with the infrastructure to even attempt post-symptomatic treatment that we likely don't have a good idea of what we could get the survival rate to be.