The Sound Of Settled Science – small dead animals

Even though his specialty was infectious disease, Willoughby knew almost nothing about rabies. “For the board exams,” he says, “you only needed to know one thing: that it was 100 percent fatal.”

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Good news is good news!! Gotta love the men and women on the front line of medical advances.
Pat

Heck, I mean even 20 years of Trudeau doesn’t necessarily have to be fatal.
But after brushes with death, you’d think that folks would learn to stay away from skunks that act like kittens.

Huh…..this terrible American health care. A medical protocol unapproved by Regional Health Authority.

That’s pretty amazing. Rabies really is 100% fatal, except seemingly not now.
Really wouldn’t want to go through that treatment though. That’s as bad as a major stroke. You get bit, get your rabies shots!!!

Well, As the Canadian experience with scientific demagoguery would dictate, your accredited field of study need not restrict your chosen area of activist expertise.
We have medical doctors who profess to be experts on gun control systems and impacts ,
fruit fly counters who profess to be experts on saving the planet from bad weather,
Social workers who profess to be experts on firearms technology,
federally subsidised film makers who presume to be experts on all manner of real and imagined “crisis”
and journalism pedagogues who presume to be experts on middle eastern theology.
One of the neat things about control freak leftism is that experts and statistics can be gleaned from virtually thin air to lend an air of expert/professional validity to any crackpot draconian notion.

Reads like an episode of House.

Reminds of the “settled science” that ulcers were caused by stress and bad diet until one doctor said the symptoms looked a lot like a bacterial infection.
So of course he was crapped on from on high by the Settled Science crowd . . until he found the bacteria and cured a simple disease and has brought relief from great misery for millions of people.
Settled science my patooty.

could someone ring up Algore’s oppinion on this settled science thingy, Puhleez!!!!!!

I remember reading ,about 30 years ago,of someone who got rabies..
he survived..
the only thing I remember about the article,was tha doctor said “we shall treat the symptoms as they occur”
anyone remember hearing about that??

embutler @5:51
Yes, I remember that. Seems to me it was in Colorado or New Mexico. IIRC, it was as you say, simply intense supportive care to keep the patient alive until his/her immune system overcame the infection. Maybe bat rabies? That Wired article was well written, and balanced.

Now it’s 90% fatal. Anyone not getting a vaccination because a treatment exists as the article’s comments suggest is bad at math.

The treatment has a slim basis in fact, but there is a lot more going on than his suppositions. Rabies is a mass phenomenon. The single most important thing you can do to prevent an infection from taking hold is to deeply flush the exposure with disinfectant and tons of soap and water. THEN go for your post-exposure immunization. His technique treats a slow-moving viral neuropathy, whch is what Rabies is. If you’re exposed to bat strain, all bets are off.

In nature there seems to be a rock bottom 3% to 5% survival rate
among most untreated host populations struck by any deadly virus.
This happened in Australia when a deadly virus was developed to
wipe out the hugely destructive rabbit overpopulation.
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