196: the girl who survived rabies

from Mysteries and Histories · host Georgia Marie

Rabies is one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, almost always fatal once symptoms appear. But in 2004, a teenage girl in Wisconsin did the impossible: she survived. This episode unravels the extraordinary story of Jeanna Giese, the first known person to beat rabies without receiving the vaccine in time.

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