"Cure" For the Bite of a Vampire

A reader asks, after reviewing the Second Congressional Report, if there is a cure for a vampire bite before the victim is Turned. Here is an excerpt from one of the leading scholarly works on vampirism:

Between the first bite and the last is a sort of twilight phase or fugue state. These victims are under vampiric influence to a degree, without being either killed or Turned. Theoretically, this phase could continue indefinitely, perhaps long enough to justify the rumors of immortal human companions to the vampires. A person may be bitten once without apparent ill effect, but is thereafter vulnerable to influence by their attacker--and that influence, however slight, may manifest years later. The use of holy water, the holy cross, or other similar religious object may help to 'cleanse' the bite, but only if the victim believes in its efficacy. The bite and its effects disappear if at any point the attacking vampire is destroyed.

[emphasis mine] As a therapist, it is extremely difficult to consider that there is no other cure.