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11/26   Prayer cures advanced rabies case.  Riiiiight.
        http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/national/25rabies.html
        I'm just glad this idiot brought his kid to a hospital instead
        of relying simply on prayer.
        \_ Oh, come on.  I'm an athiest, and I loathe religion in all its forms,
           but I think you're being unduly harsh here.  They're not claiming
           it's faith healing, they're saying that after their kid survived
           against massive odds using a totally experimental technique that
           somehow their god intervened to push luck in their direction.
           Would any religious person do differently?
           \_ Oh come on yourself.  He explicitly said that "prayer made the
              crucial difference".  I'm sorry, but that sounds really stupid
              to me when no doubt many of the previous dead victims of rabies
              have all died despite lots of praying,
              but THIS one who got the new medical
              treatment lived.  Yeah, prayer was really the crucial
              difference.  If he had said, "thank God for inspiring this new
              medical treatment" I would have nothing to say.  Tolerating
              religion is one thing, tolerating mind numbing stupidity is
              something else.
              \_ I am filled with Christ Love!
        \_ attitude like this is the reason why the Reddies are taking over
           \_ New meaning to the phrase "Red-shift."
              \_ Have you ever read Memoirs Found In a Bathtub?  You should.
              \_ The Reds are coming! -- ilyas
              \_ The Reds are coming!  Above poster's right, btw.  Memoirs
                 rocks. -- ilyas
                \_ In Soviet Russian, they ilyas you!
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By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL (NYT) 657 words Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 28 , Column 1 DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 657 WORDS - A Wisconsin teenager 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. Last month, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, put the... Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. To read the complete article, simply click on one of the BUY NOW buttons below. You can buy this single article or, for even greater value, you can purchase this article as part of a multi-pack. You'll then have the opportunity to buy additional articles now or in the future at significant savings! Article Archive: 1996-Present multi-packs are not valid for use with Article Archive: 1851-1995 multi-packs and vice versa. How multi-packs work: A multi-pack is an archive package that saves you money by allowing you to pre-purchase a set number of articles in bulk at a reduced price. You can then debit from your multi-pack and quickly access articles from the archive at your convenience over the lifetime of the multi-pack. Please Note: Article Archive 1996-Present multi-packs are not valid for use with Article Archive: 1851-1995 multi-packs and vice versa. Once you purchase an article, you may view it as often as you like over the next 90 days.