Rabies is a deadly cross-species transfer virus spread to people, typically through the saliva of infected animals. The virus is known to kill around 60,000 per year, with virtually no survivors after symptoms have been detected. Although an estimated 6 to 29 (unconfirmed) people have survived the virus, the odds of death after symptoms occur is roughly 99.996%.
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That fatality rate is EXACTLY opposite WuFlu.
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This is why your intractable hatred of the Virginia O'Possum is misguided. They don't get rabies! Sure, you might see one eat his way out of the ass of a dead cow or one might crawl up under something on the back porch and die after getting hit by a car and they might shit all over your grill if you leave it uncovered but they don't get rabies!
ReplyDeleteI don't give a fuck. They still creep me out.
Deleteken, they eat ticks too !
DeleteI don't care. I take garlic tabs for ticks.
DeleteThey still creep me out.
Rare but not impossible. Google it.
DeleteIf you've ever entered a chicken coop after a Possum visit, you'd notice that they start at the ass end of the chicken, working their way up to the head and they leave quite a mess of it.
DeleteYou'd hate my place. I got a family of them living in the creek bed behind my house. They come up on my back patio, looking for goodies. I feed them like I would a cat. Very good natured animals, as long as you respect their boundaries. Like don't try to fucking touch them.
DeleteYou'd hear me screaming like a little bitch every time I took the trash out.
DeleteBout the only time I see a opossum around here I'm shoveling road kill out of sight of the kids walking to school .
DeleteThey creep me out too; their "grin" looks exactly like Joe Biden's.
DeleteAnd Homer's boss, Mr. Burns.
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Explain to us how they would know undiagnosed people survived? I'll wait.
ReplyDeleteUndiagnosed before symptoms start, once symptoms start it becomes pretty obvious.
DeleteSadly, many that die could easily be saved. Here's one example. https://www.today.com/health/6-year-old-just-died-rabies-vaccine-could-have-saved-t121279
DeleteOf course, the survival rate among those who do *not* show symptoms, is also 100%.... but then that's true of all other diseases as well.....
ReplyDeleteThe only question is, what percentage of those with *exposure* develop symptoms....
(and of course the attendant question of what constitutes "exposure")
> Of course, the survival rate among those who do *not* show symptoms, is also 100%.... but then that's true of all other diseases as well.....
DeleteExcept COVID-19, of course. /s
I had to get Rabies shots back in the 90's. Drunk and fishing after sun down with a spinner, caught a fucking bat and couldn't see it when I reeled in, felt something warm and fuzzy when I grabbed the line and it bit me just a little. I don't think it even broke the skin.
ReplyDeleteMy health insurance couldn't figure out if they would pay for it, the first shot cost me a whole paycheck, $700.
The State Health Dept took over after that.
I still have one of the little bottles with a skull and cross bones on it, says Rabies Vaccine.
Now there's a story you don't hear every day. Catching a bat on a spinner I mean, not getting bat bit.
DeleteI don't hear about being bitten by bats all the often either to think about.
DeleteNope, but I figure it's easier to get bit by a bat than to catch one on a spinner.
DeleteI can see a new class of mepp's being invented.
DeleteSkeeter Mepps.
DeleteWhat color spinner?
DeleteI got the preventative vaccine in the '80s. I worked with our wildlife department on animal rescues and the county paid for it. A series of three shots IIRC. Wonder if it's still viable...
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Yeah.... I have a cousin that had a bat fly in the window of his car while he was driving. So he had to be treated.
DeleteNow this dude had bad luck written all over 'cause some years later on 2 different occasions he got bitten by copperheads. I'll give anyone the first time... but he managed to make it twice. Had to be careful about teasing him though, as he could bench press over 400 lbs. now he's wheelchair bound with prostate cancer. I think he finally got past that last one. I love that guy.
Rabies was a big thing when I was in school. The Ministry of Natural Resources puts vaccine in balls of ground meat which are left out for the foxes. They also drop vaccinated bits of meat into the woods from aircraft. That and mandatory rabies shots for dogs keeps it under control.
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Yeah, we had an outbreak of rabies sometime back in the RGV. Big controvery of Texas government dropping poisoned bait out in Texas rurals. Here is more of the story. I knew rabies was bad, but had no idea it affected so many people and so many die from it.
Deletehttps://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/running-rabid/
I got bit by a mole in Cub Scouts around 1963. 14 daily shots in the belly. I'm still here.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck were you doing playing with a mole?
DeleteI'm kinda curious about that myself.
DeleteWas it a Russian mole?
DeleteI would just say, there are a number of medical professionals coming forward with some very compelling arguments regarding germ theory and virology. https://www.bitchute.com/video/MTmZB8tfXQBg/
ReplyDeleteThere have been a few survivors of rabies...for values of 'survive'.
ReplyDeleteI was at a welding supply store out in the sticks in an adjoining county when a woman cracked the door and said there was a "mad dog" on the loose. I stepped into the store when a grown frothy-mouthed German Shepheard appeared in the gravel parking lot growling/snarling and showing his teeth at she and I through the glass door of the store. It's eyes looked very strange. The lady had told me the lady across the road had called the law and in a minute or two a deputy slid into the lot, got out, and drew his gun. The dog turned his attention to him and moved towards the side of the building, but not away. The lady across the road yelled that was the dog. The deputy shot him through the head with a revolver at about 15-20 yards. Some guy pulled up and they were talking about how crazy the dog had been acting and what they were going to do with it. When I left the store they'd drug it to the side of the building, coated him down with diesel fuel, and lit him afire. Nobody knew who the dog belonged too. That was in about 1980.
ReplyDeleteMy pediatrician when I was a kid was supposedly the first doc to have gotten a kid through a rabies infection alive. It happened a couple of years before I was born but my mom would talk about it on occasion. Guy really was a good doctor, good nature about him and really good at what he did. Passed away just a few years back I believe.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.limaohio.com/top-stories/2022/06/14/reminisce-more-than-a-rifle-for-christmas-for-first-rabies-survivor/
I had to get rabies shots and immunoglobulin through the ER on 4 separate visits because the chicken-shit "health professionals" at the county Health Department were in too much danger, due to COVID, to actually do their fucking jobs. They still got full pay and bennies though. Total cost to me: $24,000.... Yes, you read that right: $24,000. I had to work the whole time, at my grocery management job, because I was considered "essential". Apparently, health department NURSES were in too much danger. In the mean time, I was given a dust mask that I had to re-use every day; and was coughed on by god knows how many people. I got COVID twice in six months. They STILL made me work, even though I had all of the symptoms. I was preparing hot foods and deli sandwiches regularly, by the way. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
ReplyDeleteA week or two after the ER reported my rabies exposure, the lazy, piece of shit nurses kept calling my house. They wanted a complete report as to how I was bitten and where. I literally called her a fucking coward and told her that she could "EAT MY ASS" before I would ever discuss anything with her. Needless to say, she hung up on me and I never heard anything after that.
In vet school, virology teacher was stating that ANY mammal can catch rabies. I asked him about whales. He never got back to me on that and I've been out of school now for over thirty years. I think the guy died so guess I'll never be getting that question answered to my satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteI ran over a racoon with a dump truck in a city park. I called the health dept because it was acting strange. It was sitting up in the middle of the road pawing it's face and looked like it had mange. They told me to bring it in. I threw it in the back of a pick up and took it in. I went to get it out of the truck and man I smelled skunk. I thought shit it was acting strange cuz it had been sprayed. I left it in the bed and went in and told the health dept guy. He said did you smell skunk when you killed it? I said no. He said I'll bet you got a rabid coon. He told me about an hour after killing a rabid animal they will give off a strong skunk smell. Test came back and yup it was rabid.
ReplyDeleteWe have a huge problem with "rabid Coons" here in the Baltimore area!
DeleteThere should be a bounty on them.
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