Is the first cure for advanced rabies near?

Re:Is the first cure for advanced rabies near? by contravariant on Saturday October 07, 2023 @08:16PM (#37806733)

I think there are some ethical issues with trying to find those people and not treat their disease before it is too late, most of the testing will consists of preventing people from becoming good test subjects.

I'm not saying it's bad, but it will be expensive and may fail to yield much result (as far as testing the cure goes).

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Re:Is the first cure for advanced rabies near? by throwaway290 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @08:21PM (#37806755)

Treating them is the point. Find people who's too late to get the old rabies shot and give the new treatment to them. The difficult part is control group but that's always the difficult part. Without control group they can probably just compare statistics with the past...

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Re:Is the first cure for advanced rabies near? by contravariant on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:23AM (#37810231)

I don't think you really need a control group for something with a well established nigh 100% fatality rate.

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