Rabies patient survives under rare treatment
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WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Doctors said Tuesday they successfully treated a teenager with a usually fatal case of rabies by using a novel combination of drugs.
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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare disorder by transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
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One of four brothers diagnosed with a rare disease is re-admitted to hospital following a transplant.
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The infection that threatens the life of University of Colorado Nobel laureate Eric Cornell is rare, aggressive and often the result of plain bad luck, doctors say.
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A donor whose organs were used in  transplants by six German hospitals had probably contracted  rabies before dying, one of the hospitals said on Wednesday.
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When a visitor from Canada was attacked by a shark this month, Dr. Peter Galpin helped save his life and the use of his hand. Galpin himself doesn't have full use of his own limbs, but his wheelchair didn't get in the way.
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CHICAGO: A teenage girl has become the first known rabies victim to survive the disease without the benefit of a rabies vaccination, her doctors said.
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DOZENS of Victorians may have been exposed to a deadly brain illness related to mad cow disease and still not know it. The Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday could not guarantee that every patient who had
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Louis Pasteur's vaccine proves effective against what was then a fairly common -- and deadly -- occurrence: rabies contracted from an infected animal.
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A Nacogdoches man was in critical but stable condition after three surgeries aimed at saving him from a flesh-eating bacteria that infected him during a swim off the coast of Galveston County.
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The U.S. tuberculosis patient who was legally isolated after fleeing across international borders does not have the most dangerous form of TB but instead a strain that is easier to treat, his doctors said on Tuesday.
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The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis has a relatively low chance of spreading the disease, possibly allowing him to leave his isolation room for a short time, hospital officials said Tuesday.
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A Wisconsin girl is the first known human in the world known to survive rabies without a vaccination, according to health experts.
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Little more than a month ago 15-year-old Jeanna Giese was critically ill with rabies after a bat bit her during a service at her local church.
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A teenager who is the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination went home Saturday after nearly 11 weeks in the hospital.
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A 60-year-old Fayette County man is recovering after spending a week in an area hospital early last month for treatment of West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that affects the central nervous system.