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Rabies vaccination is a global achievement in the modern world, however, there are still ill-omened areas on this planet that rabies could still produce a fatal bite.

According to Medical Daily, an out of the ordinary scenario was reported in the Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases when a 25-year-old woman from the Henan Province in China unknowingly was bitten by a rabid dog during her fourth month of pregnancy. The victim was just given first aid for the bite and was never administered with any anti-rabies vaccine. Unfortunately, when she began to have labor she began to show symptoms of a victim with rabies. A C-section delivery was done in which she died after.

In what would be a fairytale ending, her newborn son survived the ordeal as he did not show any signs of infection. Both son and his father were then immediately given with an anti-rabies vaccine. The attending medical staff were still in awe on how the infant managed to avoid the spread of rabies but all speculated that the woman's placenta became the protective shield during the time of labor.

The said miracle story or not happened last May 2013 in which the website attributed the survival of the infant through the dispensation of the vaccines and the anti-rabies immunoglobulin without delay.

The virus caused by the bite has an infamous status of manipulating any warm-blooded mammal's central nervous system prompting a combination of too much salivation and hostility as it holds the fort in the salivary glands.

This has already been six other incidents which involved a bitten pregnant women who have delivered a baby, with only one acknowledged infant death.

In related news, more dog vaccination campaigns are being endorsed as an  effective way of reducing rabies cases in both dogs and humans in order to fully eradicate the disease, according to BBC News, as an estimated 59,000 people die every year from this tragic suffering.