A list of puns related to "Milwaukee Protocol"
https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1474756584823795714?s=21
The recent story of the man in Illinois who died of rabies after declining PEP reminded me of all of the hype surrounding the girl who was supposedly the first person to survive rabies back in 2004. After that I recall the MP being tried in a number of desperate cases but never having any success and many people were writing it off as a failure.
Doing some more digging it appears the MP had at least one more success story about ten years ago in California. This article makes it sound like the MP has saved about a dozen people although the majority of them had pretty bad neurological damage. It also appears that the success story from Texas that it cites actually involves someone who was not treated with the MP at all so its accuracy may be questionable.
All that makes me wonder, is the MP a red herring as some people have claimed or is it a legitimate way to try to save a patient in a desperate situation? Most human rabies cases are in poor countries where a treatment regimen like this isn't a viable option anyways but for the occasional kid who gets bitten by a bat in the US and doesn't get PEP is it worth trying?
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1365833644007432192?s=21
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1366110745440706560?s=21
UPDATE: RJ Hampton expected to enter health and safety protocols.
https://twitter.com/fantasylabsnba/status/1366113005306585091?s=21
The Wikipedia page about rabies states the following three things. About the disease itself, it says:
>In unvaccinated humans, rabies is almost always fatal after neurological symptoms have developed.
About the Milwaukee protocol, it says two things. First, it states
>The protocol is not an effective treatment for rabies and its use is not recommended.
and it concludes by saying
>An intention-to-treat analysis has since found this protocol has a survival rate of about 8%
Can someone explain to me how these three statements are logically consistent? The way I see it, if you get symptoms of the rabies, you have two options. One is certain death, one is death in 92% of cases. Now I know option 2 isn't particularly good, but it's better than option 1, right? Isn't "not recommending" the protocol basically saying "just let these people die"? Isn't some result, no matter how marginally good, better than certain death?
Just curious, people who survived rabies due to the experimental treatment (a handful of them at this point) should show an immunity to rabies, shouldn't they? Could you inject antibodies from them into a symptomatic patient's brain tissue or blood stream and help them survive?
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