Miracle teen survives rabies

A Wisconsin teenager who became the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination has gone home after nearly 11 weeks in hospital.

Jeanna Giese, 15, was infected when a bat bit her at church on September 12 but she did not immediately seek treatment. She began showing symptoms of rabies on October 13.

A team of doctors at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin gambled on an experimental treatment and induced a coma as part of efforts to stave off the usually fatal infection.