#rabies /

[typhlonectes]

[odinsblog]

Istg, if I ever get rabies because some dumb ass antivaxxer refused to vaccinate their dog, I’ll probably be doing the rest of my blogging from prison because I promise you, Imma curbstomp the shit out of the owner

[plague-of-frog]

This is the only person I would accept the words "I'm just built different" from.

[itscorvid]

YESSSS!!! I get to work with Ecoli and T4 lytic bacteriophage tomorrow in my virology class!!! Do you think you’ll ever do some drawings of viruses? My favorite are T4 bacteriophages (definitely not cause they have amazing potential for T4T jokes /s) and rabies of course.

Guys I can't draw another fucking anthro mushroom without chewing my hands off, I am switching out fungus for bacteria this year's Funguary - I think I'll call it Microbuary (working title)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A child has died from rabies after waking up to a bat in their bedroom, according to a Canadian health official. The case in Brant County, southern Ontario, was confirmed a month ago, with the resident receiving hospital treatment. It is the first case involving a human in Brant County - which is roughly 200km southwest of Toronto - and the first domestically-acquired case of human rabies in Ontario since 1967. This week, Dr Malcolm Lock, acting medical officer of health at the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit, which covers a part of southern Ontario, revealed the patient was a child.

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[bearypure]

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[incognitopolls]

"Possible encounter" meaning something like finding a bat in the room where you were sleeping, so you don't know if you came into contact with the animal or not.

Because there will be numbers cited and then pedantic corrections in the comments: rabies is 99.9% fatal in humans after symptoms begin to show. There have been fewer than 20 documented cases of humans surviving rabies after becoming symptomatic, and these cases took extreme, experimental medical intervention.

If you are exposed to rabies or think you may have come into contact with an infected animal, seek medical attention– when given within 10 days of exposure, the vaccine is 100% effective at preventing rabies.

And make sure your pets are up to date on their vaccines, even if they're indoor-only!

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[eternalgirlscout]

idk if this is just me but rabies is exactly like if something was made up specifically to fuck with people with OCD. you're telling me there's a disease endemic to large portions of the world that can live in my body with no symptoms for years? once symptoms start it is 100% You Die Disease? and one of its major vectors where i live is an extremely common animal with teeth so small it's possible not to even notice it bit you? surely i can get vaccinated though--ah, no, you need a "reason" or they don't give you the shot. the standard of prevention is Vigilance, Checking, and Avoiding Certain Behaviors, things that my brain is very good at doing in a healthy way, for sure. eat my ass.

[shadowmaat]

Most relevant bit:

The puppy was part of a litter of 12 at a July 20 event hosted by the Moms and Mutts Colorado Rescue for Pregnant and Nursing Dogs, also known as MAMCO. The event took place at the rescue's shelter at 2721 W. Oxford Ave. in Sheriden. The address is also sometimes listed in Englewood. The puppy, along with its littermates, came from Texas and was unvaccinated for rabies at the time of exposure. At the event, the puppy's litter was known as the "July Shepherd Mix" litter and may also have been referred to as the "Celebrity Kids" litter.

Rabies is bad, kids. Like, 100% fatal, bad. The pup had to be euthanized for testing and it's likely all its littermates will be, too. The article said they're trying to track down 17 people known to be in close contact with the infected pup, but anyone who was at the event needs to be wary. Rabies can be passed via saliva, so if the puppy licked you or your dog, there's a danger.

People who attended the event should call the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment for screening.

They can call the agency's hotline at 303-692-2700 during business hours or 303-692-9395 after hours or on weekends or holidays. Or they can email cdphe_zoonoses@state.co.us CDPHE staff will determine whether attendees need post-exposure treatment.

It's also worth noting that post-exposure treatment only works before symptoms show up. Once you or your pet start displaying symptoms, it's too late. Again: rabies is 100% fatal.

The article doesn't mention how the pup contracted rabies in the first place and it doesn't mention how old the pup was, but a bit of quick research shows that the vax schedule for rabies isn't until 14 weeks, so if the puppy was younger than that (and this was a "nursing dogs" event) it's possible it was just too young to have been vaxxed. There may be more nuance to it than that and there's a lot of details that aren't mentioned, but I don't think this is a case of "ugh, Texas" or anything like that. Shelters, at least, take health & safety seriously. Any employee spouting off about animals not needing vaccines is going to get kicked to the curb.

I really hope that the CDPHE has a system in place to cover the cost of the post-exposure treatment since it can cost anywhere from $1200 to $6500 without insurance and that's going to be impossible for a lot of people, even if the alternative is a slow and painful death.

What a mess. I hope everyone (and their animals) comes through this safe and healthy.

[vaspider]

So I'm putting this here as a sort of public service. If you have never seen a rabid animal before, and you think you can handle watching it, I think it's a good idea to watch this. It's pretty upsetting to watch, so big CW on it, because this animal is essentially "dead but still moving." This is end-stage rabies. There is no saving this animal.

Before this stage, animals may be excessively affectionate or oddly tame-looking which is part of the reason why seeing people feeding foxes is upsetting to me. These animals might be, or might become, rabid, and there's no way to know without testing, which involves destroying the animal. Encouraging wild animals to be that close to humans is generally bad.

I grew up in the woods, so unfortunately we saw an uptick in rabid animals every spring -- you'd hear there was a rabid bat in this neighborhood or a rabid fox in this one -- but as wild animals and humans cross over more and more, we will see this more and more.

Opossums and squirrels extremely rarely get rabies, and we don't know why. They think the low body temperature of opossums inhibits the virus. The most common animals which get rabies in the US are raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes. Any animal 'acting unusually' -- not skittish around humans, biting at the air or at nothing ('fly-biting'), walking strangely (they kind of look like they have a string attached to their heads and walk kind of diagonal like they're being pulled along, a lot of the time) -- should be treated as though it's potentially rabid.

If you think you have been exposed to a rabid animal, including 'waking up in a room where a bat has gotten into it and there's a fucking bat in your room', please immediately go to the emergency room. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Post-exposure prophylaxis absolutely fucking sucks, it is a series of shots you'll have to get in two stages, it's done by weight, and it feels fucking nasty, but rabies is 100% fatal. I cannot stress enough how essential this is, having been through it.

Thank you for reading, I love everybody, the end.

[phoenixyfriend]

Had a fucked up dream about rabies spreading like covid, after a smallpox-like eradication, because some anti-vaxxer's kid got bit by a rare surviving sample of it, because that shit can survive for YEARS undetected and also in corpses, and then it fucking mutated into the zombie apocalypse

[warandpeas]

R.I.P.

[foone]

remember, if you ever handle a wild vampire, you need to get a rabies vaccine immediately.

especially in their bat form! they are a major reservoir of rabies. You might not even realize you've been bitten.

The last thing you want to do is get vampiric rabies. Haven't any of you punks seen Ol' Yeller? That final scene, where the little gay boy has to put down his beloved dog with a stake to the heart, because the dog has got the hemophobe?

[lampp0start]

Some more rabies au. TW GORE

[mapsontheweb]

Map of rabies-free countries and territories

[reggiemess]

Reasons why you don't feed wildlife #8653894