05-15-2014, 12:39 PM
freeradical wrote:
I don't know about this. Maybe.
I recently thumbed through a book about rabies, and there was a chapter about the few handful of people who've survived after the virus enters the brain. It's a very short list. One girl was given some sort of highly experimental treatment and she survived. It's been tried on about a 10-15 other people, and a few of them have survived too. But there is still a great deal of controversy over whether this treatment actually cured the patients, or if they were simply lucky and might have beat it anyway. Who knows.
I guess the bottom line is that when this cancer treatment gets a real track record, I'll buy it.
But it is an interesting story.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/312245-rod...sus-death/