On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM,  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Human Rabies --- Minnesota, 2007
>
> On October 20, 2007, a Minnesota resident died from rabies, approximately 1
> month after initial symptoms of limb paresthesia, which progressed to
> flaccid weakness and ataxia. This was the only human rabies case reported in
> the United States in 2007. A presumptive diagnosis of idiopathic transverse
> myelitis was considered initially, because of abnormalities detected via
> spinal cord imaging studies and a lack of laboratory confirmation of a
> specific infectious etiology. The presumptive diagnosis subsequently was
> changed to include rabies, based on the patient's rapidly deteriorating
> neurologic status and elicitation of a history involving bat exposure during
> the month before illness onset....

Yow.  That doesn't speak well for medical cluefulness in the Lake
Wobegon vicinity.

Back in the 1970s, you could get a free subscription to the MMWR just
for the asking.  I found it fascinating.  Somewhere among my stuff, I
still have the issue that contained the first published report
anywhere about the syndrome now known as AIDS.  They put it on page 2
-- for bad reasons later detailed in Randy Shilts' book "And The Band
Played On."

                                                                Larry

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