Recovery from Rabies

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Abstract
Worldwide, some 55,000 people die every year from rabies, mostly in Asian and African countries where canine rabies is endemic. Children are frequently the victims of rabies. In the United States, indigenous cases of rabies in humans usually occur through transmission of rabies virus from wildlife vectors, and molecular characterization of the variants indicates that the majority of these cases originate from insect-eating bats.In this issue of the Journal, Willoughby et al.1 report the case of a young patient in whom rabies developed after a clear history of having been bitten by a bat. Most of the cases of . . .