Edgar Allan Poe, didn't die drunking gutter in Baltimore but rather rabies, Dr. R. Michael Benitez said. A Cardiologist who practice a block from poe's grave. I think Poe died because of rabies, because when he said he couldn't drink alcohol, and could only drink water, when he was in the hospital. But there's no evidence true evidence yet.
Mr. Jerome a writer who was so sensitive to alcohol that a glass of wine would make him violently ill for days, said that Poe did not die of alcohol poisoning, or withdrawal as a younger man, by the time he died in forty he almost always avoided it.
Dr. Banitez said that Poe died because of rabies, rather than with an alcohol. But there's is a big change that Poe did really die of rabies because of what says in the hospital, that he couldn't drink alcohol and could only drink water with great difficulty. Because of some of the rabies victim frequently exhibit hydrophobia or fear of water, because it's painful to swallow.
Dr. Benitez said that he did not admit that the lack of bite or scratch is weakness in his theory that Edgar may have died of rabies encephalistis. Over the past 20 years in the United States there have been 33 reported cases of human rabies, and yet only 24 percent of those victim's could recall an appropriate history of animal exposure.
A diagnosis is not always easy or straight forward. The incubation period in humans may be as long as a year, if the inoculation is small and occurs on the hand or foot. Thus lack of evidence of a bite of scratch is not inconsistent with the diagnosis. Dr. Benitez was saddened to hear of the fate of caterine, Poe's cat, that Poe contracted rabies from caterine, Poe's cat, and there's no available vaccine for pets at that time.
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