07/12/2024

Rabies Could Become a Disease of the Past

Here's what it would take

A few years ago, as a first-year doctor in the Philippines, Ricky Dann Marquez had to pin a teenage patient's hands to the hospital bed.

"It was terrible. It was terrible," he said.

The worry was that the girl would thrash about, bite someone — or worse. "We had to tie the patient to the bed so that she would not strangle anyone," Marquez said.

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