Talk:The Fuzzy Easter Angel/@comment-10502460-20190705021827/@comment-24101790-20190705023409

Overly long response featuring pointless minutia:

Interestingly enough, finding a cure for rabies is actually a pretty high priority in the medical field given the fact that rabies (from the Lyssavirus family) has an incredibly high fatality rate (only a handful of people (I believe ten or so) that have been infected and developed symptoms have survived) due to its high neuroinvasiveness and the damage it does to the nervous system and its prevalence in the world. I think like 60,000 or so people die each year from rabies.

The Milwaukee Protocol which Dr. Bob outlines above (putting someone in a medically induced coma and treating them with a rush of anti-virals) was a really interesting breakthrough but it was abandoned in 2011 after widespread failure (although interestingly enough, the one subject who survived just graduated college. She survived rabies with severe speech and neurological deficits, but she is slowly recovering from the near 100% fatal disease). Unfortunately the validity of the experiment has been called into question with people doubting the validity of the doctor's claims and the haste in which the medical journal article proposing this cure was rushed out. Unfortunately it's no longer a protocol they're really employing in the medical world as they're more focused on finding a more bullet-proof treatment, but until then, prevention and PPE is the best 'cure'.

Sorry about that information blitz. We spent a while on it in Virology and it's a pretty interesting subject given its impact on animals (it can make dogs super aggressive, animals experience changes in their sleep schedule like going from nocturnal to diurnal schedules, and it's even been transmitted through organ transplants) so I thought I'd leave this here.