The Milwaukee protocol is starting to be abandoned. Other than a handful of extremely rare outliers, all it does is prolong suffering. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
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I never, ever want to say that it's better that someone dies rather than live with a disability, but rabies may be the one exception. I've seen videos of late-stage victims.
sep 2, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
The survival rate is so vanishingly low that it is still effectively 100% fatal once it becomes symptomatic. It kills something like 50,000+ people per year. In *ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY* there have been only a handful of very recent survivors.
sep 3, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view
It is, hands down, the most lethal virus humankind has ever encountered, and it’s not even close. Ebola and Marburg have higher survival rates with fewer long term disabilities. The only survivor we really know of who made a reasonable recovery still had to learn how to walk again.
sep 3, 2025, 11:23 am • 2 0 • view
There is no living with disability possible when you have rabies
sep 2, 2025, 11:02 pm • 4 0 • view