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Gerard Marder, MD
Gastonia Pediatric Associates Gastonia, NC

JAMA. 1986;255(3):321.

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To the Editor.—

In regard to the article about recommendations for human rabies exposure prophylaxis, I applaud the efforts of Dr Remington et al¹ to substitute some sense for the panic that so often occurs with reference to rabies prophylaxis after exposure to a human case.

It brings to mind the time when I was an intern in pediatrics at Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC, in 1954. A boy was brought in by his mother. Rabies was suspected. He had been bitten in the chest by a stray dog several weeks before. The dog was not found and the boy did not receive antirabies treatment. He was placed in isolation and assigned to me as a patient. I collected both the spinal fluid and saliva and was sure that I got some of the spinal fluid on my hands; I was not sure about the saliva.

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Senior Contributing Editor; Sharon Iverson, Assistant Editor.

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