Some Peruvians build an immune response to rabies according to CDC study

The rabies virus is well established as being as close to 100% fatal as any disease in humans or mammals with very few documented survivors. You could count the number of survivors on one hand, until now. However, according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ministerio de Salud in Lima, Peru demonstrates that some Peruvian Amazons have survived the usually fatal virus without vaccination. In the study, CDC researchers found that approximately 10% of those tested from a couple of remote villages in Peru had built up an immune response and survived the usually lethal infection. The study consisted of 92 people, 50 of whom reported previous bat bites. Blood samples were taken from 63 people, and 7 (11%) were found to have “rabies virus neutralizing antibodies,” evidence that they had been previously...