The girl who survived rabies.

In 2004 a 15-year-old American girl, Geanna Giese, became the first non-vaccinated person in the world to survive rabies. This documentary tells the story of how she developed rabies following a bite on her finger by a bat while at her local church. Rabies is normally 100% fatal but Dr. Rodney Willoughby at the Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, was determined to try something to save Gina. He put her into a very deep coma to stop the rabies virus in its tracks and allow the immune system to attempt to fight the virus off. It worked and Gina survived although it took her two years to learn to walk and talk again. Was this a cure or a miracle? In the developing world up to 100 000 people a year die from rabies and Dr. Stephen Scholand who works in South East Asia was keen to try out Willoughby's treatment. Professor Thiravat Hemachudha was the next person to try out Willoughby's protocol for treating rabies victims but it did not succeed.