Smasharoo wrote:
I just want to know what's with the 90% mortality rate thing I keep hearing from conservative media.
Wait until they find out Rabies has a 100% mortality rate. Goodbye racoons!
Untreated symptomatic rabies, probably so. There's some evidence that a small percentage of us are immune, or at least able to survive without treatment. A handful of people tested for the antibodies in Peru tested positive without ever having had symptoms. Probably thought they'd had flu, or some such.
People treated with fluids, antivirals and neural meds occasionally survive.
My mom saw a few people with rabies, way back when before the vaccine was available. She said it was horrifying, watching someone go through that with nothing to be done for them.