A cure for rabies?

Rabies is one of the oldest and most feared diseases. It attacks the brain, causing agitation,terror and convulsions. Victims suffer painful throat spasms when they try to drink or eat. Paralysis follows, yet people infected with rabies are intermittently alert until near death and can communicate their fear and suffering to family and caregivers. Vaccines against the rabies virus can prevent the disease, patients who failed to get immunized soon after being biten have little hope.