Post by Sharon Faulkner on Aug 30, 2007 16:36:50 GMT -5
Rabies Survivor Viewed as 'Medical Marvel'
August 29, 2007 Fox News
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Jeanna Giese, like many other teenagers entering college, admits to being nervous about classes and meeting new friends.
But Giese isn't your average freshman. She is a medical marvel who has been studied and chronicled for nearly three years as a one-of-a-kind case: She survived rabies without vaccination.
Giese was not hospitalized until a month after she was bitten by a bat she picked up in church.
In a desperate attempt to save her, Wisconsin doctors intentionally put her in a coma and gave her a slew of antiviral drugs and other medications to prevent a cascade of events that causes nerve cells to die. She spent two months in intensive care before returning home on New Year's Day, 2005.
Doctors report on her progress in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. She has recovered "remarkably well" and should continue to improve, said Dr. Kenneth Mack, a Mayo Clinic neurologist.
tinyurl.com/2fadkz
August 29, 2007 Fox News
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Jeanna Giese, like many other teenagers entering college, admits to being nervous about classes and meeting new friends.
But Giese isn't your average freshman. She is a medical marvel who has been studied and chronicled for nearly three years as a one-of-a-kind case: She survived rabies without vaccination.
Giese was not hospitalized until a month after she was bitten by a bat she picked up in church.
In a desperate attempt to save her, Wisconsin doctors intentionally put her in a coma and gave her a slew of antiviral drugs and other medications to prevent a cascade of events that causes nerve cells to die. She spent two months in intensive care before returning home on New Year's Day, 2005.
Doctors report on her progress in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. She has recovered "remarkably well" and should continue to improve, said Dr. Kenneth Mack, a Mayo Clinic neurologist.
tinyurl.com/2fadkz