http://www.drkoop.com/newsdetail/93/526342.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8273302/

Nice story... but check out what drugs they used:

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To give her body a chance to fight off the infection, the team decided to induce a coma and administer antiviral medications. The four medications used were: ketamine, midazolam, amantadine and ribavirin. Ketamine is an anesthetic that can be used to induce coma. Midazolam is a sedative that causes drowsiness and can cause unconsciousness. According to Willoughby, midazolam can counteract some of the unwanted side effects of ketamine. Amantadine is an antiviral medication that also helps improve muscle coordination and has been used in the treatment of shaking from Parkinson's disease. Ribavirin is also an antiviral medication.

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As he read a 1992 medical paper, Willoughby came across something else interesting. Scientists at the rabies unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris had found that an anesthetic called ketamine significantly reduced levels of rabies in infected rats. But the drug also could protect the brain by interfering with excitotoxicity, a kind of chain reaction in which brain cells consume too much oxygen, burn themselves out and release material that causes other cells to burn out. Ketamine had a downside; its possible side effects include hallucinations. More significant: Ketamine had been tested on rats with rabies, never on a human with the disease.

They put the poor girl in a K-hole for a week!