In the fall of 2004, Jeanna Giese checked into the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin with a set of puzzling symptoms ... and her condition was deteriorating fast. By the time Dr. Rodney Willoughby saw her, he only knew one thing for sure: if Jeanna's disturbing breakdown turned out to be rabies, she was doomed to die.
What happened next seemed like a medical impossibility. In this episode, originally aired back in 2013, Producer <a href="http://www.radiolab.org/people/tim-howard/">Tim Howard</a> tells Jeanna's story and talks to authors Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik, and scientists Amy Gilbert and Sergio Recuenco, while trying to unravel the mystery of an unusual patient, and a doctor who dared to take on certain death.
Episode credits:
Reported and produced by Tim Howard
CITATIONS:
Articles:"<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/ff_rabies/all/">Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery</a>," Wired article by Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik
"<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/rabies-survivor-mystery-deepens/">Bats Incredible: The Mystery of Rabies Survivorship Deepens</a>," Wired article by Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik
"<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/p0801_rabies_immune.html">Study Detects Rabies Immune Response in Amazon Populations</a>," the CDC's page on Amy Gilbert and Sergio Recuenco's work (inc. photos from Peru)
"<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/resources/news/mp-haiti-lg.html">Selection Criteria for Milwaukee Protocol</a>," when to try the Milwaukee Protocol
Books:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143123572/radiolabbooks-20/">Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus</a>, by Bill Wasik and Monica MurphyOur newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. <a href="https://radiolab.org/newsletter">Sign up</a> (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!
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