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Re:CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats... by userbinator on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:47PM (#29833080)
The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done - see below

I was curious, and thought that would be something gruesome involving power tools, so I looked it up and it's apparently an induced coma with heavy doses of antiviral drugs, which has a very low success rate.

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Re:CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats... by zenexer on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:17PM (#29833924)
As far as I'm aware, exactly one person has survived that treatment, and she never fully recovered. A low success rate indeed.
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