re: UCLA CB has an ultra rare infection that only 12 people on record have ever had

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A study of people living in remote areas of Peru shows that about one in 10 appears to have been bitten by rabid bats, but lived to tell the tale. Rabies is almost universally fatal, with only five documented cases of people surviving. Teams at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now looking further to see if people may survive the deadly virus more often than had been believed

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“Rabies has the highest case fatality rate of any conventional infectious disease, approaching 100 percent,” Petersen and colleagues wrote in their report, published on Wednesday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. People can survive if vaccinated immediately after a bite or other exposure to rabies, but there is no real treatment for infection, with very rare exceptions.

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