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Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite by tombert on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:53PM (#42309776)
I agree with what you're saying, and you're absolutely correct, but purely in the interest of pedantry, there has been at least one case of a person surviving after showing symptoms [1].

Still, the odds are so close to 100% lethal after symptoms that you can very honestly round up to 100%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#After_onset

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Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:56PM (#42309823)
> there has been at least one case of a person surviving after showing symptoms

There appear to be some people with the ability to create antibodies to the rabies virus. Together with the Milwaukee protocol, which may keep the brain from frying itself (or do nothing, we don't know), we have the ability to turn it from a death sentence to--in a hair of cases--just a severely debilitating disease.

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Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite by stronglikedan on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @02:29PM (#42310202)
And that case was (relatively) recent! https://childrenswi.org/at-every-turn/stories/jeanna-giese-r...
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