It is reported in Fond Du Lac, WI that a girl named Jeanna Giese was bitten by a bat in church and was given rabies. She was not hospitalized until a month after she was bitten and doctors put her in a coma and gave her antiviral drugs and other medications to keep her nerve cells from dying. She spent two months in intensive care before returning home.
It is considered a miracle that she was able to live for a month without any vaccination. Usually rabies victims need vaccination very soon after they are bitten. Rabies is a viral disease that attacks the nervous system and is usually fatal once the symptoms start to develop.
