2007-01-25 06:33:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I'm going to be a pedant on this one. Rabies isn't (quite) 100% fatal. There has been 6 recorded cases of survival once the patient became syptomatic.
Of these 6 only 1 did not receive the vaccine at all. This was a 15 year old girl from Wisconsin in the USA, who contracted rabies in 2005. Doctors put her into a coma (to reduce the stress that the disease causes) and then pumped full of antiviral drugs.
Despite other doctors replicating the method used to save the girls life no one else has survived.
2007-01-25 09:35:11 · answer #1 · answered by Kit 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the United States, during the past half-century, the number of humans to die of rabies dramatically decreased to an average of 12 per year. Although the number of deaths is low, most deaths occur because individuals are unaware that they had been exposed to and infected with rabies virus, and, therefore, they do not seek effective postexposure treatment. Molecular epidemiological studies have linked most of these cryptic rabies exposures to rabies virus variants associated with insectivorous bats. In particular, virus variants associated with 2 relatively reclusive species, the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and the eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus), are the unexpected culprits of most cryptic cases of rabies in humans.
2007-01-25 08:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by Pandora 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Although there is a vaccine that can prevent people from contracting rabies after exposure, if the virus has advanced far enough that the infected person starts exhibiting symptoms, it is still 100% fatal.
Basically, once you start showing signs of the disease, it's too late, and you're a dead man (or woman, or dog).
That's about as bad for you as you can get.
2007-01-25 07:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As said before it will kill you unless you get treatment. There is a vaccine against it.I received it when I was working with rabid animals during the development of the Rabies vaccine.Believe me you don't want to catch it.
2007-01-25 07:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a neurological disease - it attacks your nervous system. That's why rabid dogs, whatever, are seen staggering and not able to walk normally. It's degenerative and not curable. The result, if untreated, is death. Painful, agonizing, death.
2007-01-25 07:30:46 · answer #5 · answered by laylaface2001 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
simple, many people dies because of Rabies
2007-01-25 06:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by sm bn 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
BECAUSE IT CAN KILL YOU!!!!
2007-01-25 06:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by stella b 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋