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by vorpalhex 2783 days ago
According to a source I've found, it seems there are at least 5 known survivors thanks to the Milwaukee protocol: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/rabies-survivor-milwaukee-proto...

An NCBI article claims 13: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947331/

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That NCBI article claims there are 13 known survivors of rabies. In total. Nothing to do with whether they got the Milwaukee protocol treatment

It also notes the deaths of at least two of the "known survivors", that others received the PEP vaccine either completely or partially, and that one survivor likely didn't have rabies at all due to no anti-bodies being found.

That leaves just the original case in 2004 where someone survived without vaccine and received the MP.