Rabies - Brazil (03) : (Pernambuco), Recovery from Rabies using the Wisconsin Protocol

RABIES - BRAZIL (03): (PERNAMBUCO), RECOVERY
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Date: 12 Feb 2009
From: Gustavo Trindade Henriques Filho

[In response to a ProMED inquiry about the status of the Pernambuco,
Brazil, surviving rabies patient, the following was received from Dr.
Henriquez Filho, the attending physician. - Mod.TY]

Our patient is alive. He was discharged from the critical care unit
last Wednesday (4 Feb [2009]). He is conscious, but with motor
limitations. He is conscious and speaking, with a good cognitive function.

Gustavo Trindade Henriques Filho, MD
Critical Care Unit of Infectious Diseases,
Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital
Pernambuco State University
Brazil


[This patient was treated following the Wisconsin protocol, and
represents a 2nd survival after the development of clinical disease
following treatment using the the Wisconsin protocol. ProMED thanks
Dr. Henriques Filho for this report, and will be interested in future
information about the patient's progress. The details relating to
this case and the original one in Wisconsin, as well as the
discussion it engendered concerning the efficacy of the Wisconsin
protocol in survival of rabies patients, can be found in the ProMED
archives listed below. - Mod.TY]

Human survival, Bat Bite - Brazil - Milwaukee protocol

. what appears to be a survival from an aggressive bat bite, loaded with Rabies virus, has been reported in the municipality of Floresta, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

.. a 15 year old boy bitten by a an aggresive bat, reported symptoms of Rabies on 06 October 2008, with transfer to a medical center on 10 October 2008.

... on 11 October 2008 the young lad was transferred to the intensive care unit, and was placed in a drug induced come, known as the Milwaukee protocol, where in 2004 the protocol was used on a patient (a 15 year old girl with neurogical symptoms) to become the first recorded case of recovering from Rabies where neurological symptoms had developed.

.... on 30 October 2008, the patient was brought out of the drug induced coma; now reported on 11 November 2008 to be unsedated and clinically stable.

..... reported by Dr Walter Woolf (V.M.D.).. the veterinarian owner and founder of Air Animal Pet Movers, of Tampa, Florida, the relocating pets best friend. The source of this information can be found on the following web site --- http://www.promedmail.org ----