Rabies: Teen first to survive without shot
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WISCONSIN, NOVEMBER 25: A teenager from Wisconsin is the first human ever to survive rabies without vaccination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday, after she received a desperate and novel type of therapy.
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Dec 30, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A 16-year-old girl in southern Vietnam is seriously ill with H5N1 avian influenza, according to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and news services today.
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A teenage girl, bitten by a bat, is the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors.
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A US teenage girl has survivied full-blown rabies she contracted from a bat - the first human ever to do so without vaccination, TechNewsWorld reports.
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By MARK CZERWINSKI  Perhaps you saw the story in Wednesday's paper about the little boy in Middletown who was attacked by a coyote while playing outside a neighbor's house. It was random, non-provoked, and, quite frankly, frightening.
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New Jersey on Friday became the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers, saying their developing immune systems and likelihood of spreading germs make them as vulnerable to complications as the elderly.
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An 18-year-old girl has died of bird flu  in southern Vietnam and the first confirmed human infection in  the country's north has raised concerns about possible  human-to-human transmission of the virus.
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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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A 16-year-old girl from southern Vietnam has become infected with the bird flu strain that killed 32 people earlier this year and devastated the poultry industry across Asia, a doctor said Thursday.
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A teenager is in a critical condition after he and his friend were shot at a McDonald's restaurant.
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A teenager has died after being bitten  by a mosquito infected with eastern equine encephalitis,  becoming the second Massachusetts resident killed by the rare  disease this summer, a state official said on Thursday.
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A high school varsity athlete, a sturdy guy with a health history blissfully free of blips, 18-year-old Joseph Spencer had little reason to think anything was seriously wrong when he got sick last April.
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Doctors in Wisconsin appear to have succeeded in their experiment to let a 15-year-old girl with deadly rabies fight the virus with her own immunity.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- She says she &quot;might be late for curfew,&quot; but a Washington state teen has been found alive after an eight-day search.
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To a prosecutor, Ashley Reeves is nothing short of a miracle. More than a year ago, the teenager was found in the woods of a city park, where an assailant had left her for dead after snapping her neck. She couldn't move. Her breathing was shallow, her eyes glassy. On Friday, after months of grueling rehab learning how to swallow, talk and move her head and arms again, the 18-year-old Reeves watched the man who caused her ordeal get punished.
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SASEBO, Japan -- On a cloudless afternoon in this sleepy port city, an 11-year-old girl drenched in blood and clutching a box cutter walked into the lunchroom at her elementary school. Teachers and students froze, assuming the sixth-grader known for her lighthearted nature had gravely hurt herself -- but she quickly dispelled that impression, witnesses said, by uttering a few ...
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A unique medical case mesmerized doctors worldwide. According to Healthtalk.com, a 15-year-old female from Wisconsin survived rabies without receiving the rabies vaccine.