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Much of this is nonsense. This, for instance: "If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can d
by uptownJimmy 13y ago
Much of this is nonsense.
This, for instance:
"If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead."
- Fomite 13y agoUmm...rabies pretty much is curtains. If we miss the postexposure prophylaxis window, the fatality rate for rabies is indistinguishable from 100%
- caseydurfee 13y agoThat's not a new development, though. OP makes it sound like it is. Rabies has always been that way.
- mhb 13y agoYeah, but how did we lose that fight a decade ago? Whether or not we'd prefer something better, doesn't the treatment that worked then, still work now?
- Fomite 13y agoAs another poster has said, we didn't really "lose" that fight. Rabies has always been that way - invariably fatal unless treated, and the only treatment (outside some insane edge cases) is the administration of the rabies vaccine shortly after (or ideally before) contact. The very low rabies incidence and near zero fatalities of rabies in the developed world actually show that it's a very winnable fight. The issue is, we have to show up to said fight. In the developing world, we're not always good at that.
- brazzy 13y agoActually, there are experimental treatments that involve an induced coma and seem to produce survival rates of over 10%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_protocol
- Fomite 13y agoI hadn't seen the newer revision of the protocol, only the original 2 out of 25 number. "Indistinguishable from 100%" was perhaps a little severe, but 90% survival is still pretty long odds.
- brazzy 13y agoIt's not odds I'd like to face, but it's the difference between no hope and reasonable hope.