Dog lover dies of rabies

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-Christian-College-student-a-dog-lover-dies-of-rabies/articleshow/30808579.cms wrote:Alan Samuel, 24, a post-graduate student of social work at Madras Christian College, Tambaram, died of rabies early on Friday. He was bitten by a rabid pup on the college campus in November 2013. Alan was a dog lover.

In November 2013, he and his classmates were walking to their department when they came across the pup. He and a classmate played with the pup, which bit them both. Alan and his friend went to general physicians to get treated. "The girl's physician recommended that she take the anti-rabies vaccine, but Alan's doctor seems to have said a tetanus toxoid shot would suffice," said Durai Jasper, public relations officer of CMC Vellore, who confirmed that Alan died at the hospital at 1am on Friday.

A post by MCC's department of social welfare on a social networking site on February 13 said Alan complained of shoulder pain after two days, and his parents took him to a doctor close to their home. The doctor informed them that Alan was displaying symptoms of advanced stage of rabies and told them to take him to a government hospital.

At GH he was referred to CMC, Vellore. "He hasn't slept the whole night, refused to lie down, just kept sitting and staring at everyone. He's showing aversion to breeze and water. Please pray for a miracle," the post read.

On February 17, an update on the site said doctors at CMC had put him under induced coma and were waiting for his immune system to produce antibodies. Jasper said that as soon as he was diagnosed with rabies, the doctors told his parents that he may not survive. "There are only six known cases of survival across the world. We tried on the patient the Milwaukee protocol, which saved these people in the US, but it didn't help," said Dr George Varghese of CMC. The hospital is treating Samuel's friend who was also bitten, since she had taken only three of the five doses of anti-rabies shots.