From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2004:

MILWAUKEE–Jeanna Giese, 15, of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin,
is the sixth person on medical record to survive rabies. After
extensive rehabilitative therapy she may become the first to resume a
normal life.
Bitten by a bat she was trying to take outside on September
12, 2004, Giese did not seek medical care. She began exhibiting
rabies symptoms on October 13, and was admitted to the Children’s
Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa on October 18.
Pediatric infectious disease specialist Rodney Willoughby,
M.D., on October 19 asked her parents, John and Ann Giese, for
permission to put her into an induced coma, which might protect her
against brain damage while he attempted treatment with an
experimental four-drug combination.
“No one had really done this before, even in animals,”
Willoughby told Juliet Williams of Associated Press. “None of the
drugs are fancy. If this works, it can be done in a lot of
countries.” Willoughby did not disclose the names of the drugs,
pending publication of the data in a peer-reviewed journal.
Kept comatose for a week, Giese became the first rabies
patient ever to survive despite having never been vaccinated, either
before or after she was bitten by a rabid animal, Centers for
Disease Control & Prevent-ion rabies expert Dr. Charles Rupprecht
told Elisabeth Rosenthal of The New York Times. Her exposure was
detected much too late for the five-dose, month-long post-exposure
vaccination sequence to have been effective.

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