And the numbers of infections were far lower than you're claiming here - rather than approximately 20,000 in 100,000 as claimed above, the numbers (in 2011) were 4.5 in 100,000.
Yes, MRSA has declined, but not because of improved treatments. Now that we can no longer kill these bugs after they invade the body, hospitals have significantly ramped up their efforts to kill them before they invade.
Hurray for these protocols, but that won't do all that we need. It won't be possible to scrub the whole world with poisons the way we have begun scrubbing hospital rooms. We need ways to stop infections that we can't prevent.
http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/statistics/ (Center for Disease Control)
And the numbers of infections were far lower than you're claiming here - rather than approximately 20,000 in 100,000 as claimed above, the numbers (in 2011) were 4.5 in 100,000.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-hospital-mrsa-id... (Reuters quoting numbers from a JAMA / CDC study).
As for rabies, according to Wikipedia quoting Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.),
"Treatment after exposure is highly successful in preventing the disease if administered promptly, in general within 10 days of infection."
There's more information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Treatment (Wikipedia)