50 years ago, a 6-year-old boy became the first known rabies survivor
Excerpt from the December 4, 1971 issue of Science News

Rabies virus, shown in this electron micrograph magnified 70,000x, is nearly always fatal once people begin to show symptoms. Although vaccines can protect people from becoming ill, researchers have for decades attempted without success to find a cure.
F. A. Murphy/University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas