#rabies disease

[elbimboo]

guys he hogged the bed

@squidflavoredsoup

[thehappyvet]

Where do people get this misconception that every single wildlife case at a vet clinic is euthanased so it's better to not take them in even if they're obviously hurt or sick and in need of treatment?!?!

Friendly reminder that a member of the public should not be able to easily pick up or catch a wild animal. We are not in a disney movie. If you can pick it up*, 80% of the time its extremely hurt or sick.

Wildlife, and most animals for that matter, do not show pain as humans do. That does not mean they are not in pain and suffering.

Veterinarians only euthanase wild animals that are suffering from extreme injury or illness, or animals that would stress themselves to death in a hospital setting that cannot be released and survive in the wild with their issue.

We do euthanase some animals, but that's because it's the best welfare decision for that animal and its specific problem.

Maybe trust the professionals trained in providing treatment to animals instead of some Karen on Facebook who demonises vets because she can't understand a bird with multiple wing and shoulder fractures is very unlikely to regain flight and return to the wild and her plan of keeping it means it will live a life of chronic pain and suffering.

*Disclaimer: If you live in a country where diseases such as rabies are endemic, you should not handle wildlife at all if you are not trained or vaccinated. This post is not recommending members of the public handle wildlife in any country.

[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!

–

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[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.

[lampp0start]

Finally! Some more art for my Rabies au! I still desperately need to design non-rabid Sonic.

Here are the rabid werehog boyos! Encounter one of these alone in the woods and consider yourself a goner!

Shadow chaining himself to the bed at night so when he werehogs out he doesn't go around killing people. He's probably in the basement of an abandoned house he is hiding in. This is either right before or right after Sonic has died. Bonus: He's pregnant.

Shadow before the incident where he is bit! I plan to do a comic showing the whole ordeal on how he got the werehog rabies. It's going to be a long time til I get the courage to though.

This is the original rabid werehog sketch I did for this au a couple months ago, it's somewhat outdated.

Fun facts:

Tails dies, Sonic kills him

Sonic dies, Shadow kills him

Shadow gives birth to sonadow baby and it lives

Shadow dies, kills himself

Silver adopts the baby

[magnetothemagnificent]

Wonder if the idea that demons can be repelled by holy water comes from rabies.....organisms infected rabies behave erratically and violently, salivate at the mouth, all classic "symptoms" of demonic possession. But one key thing that rabies does that other pathologies don't is it causes the infected organism to be hydrophobic - react violently to water.

[relaxxattack]

“it was because he didn’t know what was going on or if he’d make it out alive! it was a metaphor!” i’m fucking building my tower right now are you SERIOUS.

[disease]

RABIES IN MAN [1955]

[4ng3l-c0ining]

CWD/CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE PRIDE

cwd or chronic wasting disease pride is heavily based around rabies pride— this term is for people considered lazy, useless, unhelpful or anything for the sort by society because of physical disability, neurodivergence/mental illness, sexual orientation or gender.

(extremely self-indulgent coin. I may do more !!! Request diseases you wanna see maybe?)

‼️ ANYONE CAN USE THIS OR INTERACT. I WILL BLOCK ANYONE I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH. ‼️

[centers-for-disease-control]

*chomp chomp bite*

get rabies nerd

Jokes on you, I am getting PEP which can prevent me from developing rabies after I have been exposed.

[serpentface]

does rabies play a role in wardi perceptions of dogs?

Yes it does for sure

Mentioned this briefly in another post, but rabid animals are interpreted as being animals that have killed and/or eaten a person and are now possessed by their ghost (who has been prevented from moving on to the afterlife through their corpse's desecration and consumption, and twisted into a very powerful evil spirit). Being bitten by one may pass the spirit on to the bite victim.

The animal, whose body has been ravaged by the physical disease enabled by possession, soon dies, and the bite victim is now possessed by the same evil spirit (which has taken on traits of their host animal via inhabiting its body). Victims of bites who start exhibiting symptoms will VERY often commit suicide or be killed by others, to the point that human deaths directly due to rabies running its full course is relatively rare- one who is fully possessed by an evil spirit has their afterlife in jeopardy and will likely be trapped as a wandering ghost under the spirit's control, and killing oneself before the possession fully takes hold will be preferable to most. It's better than a tormented eternity as a soul trapped in the world of a living, deprived of rest among loved ones and God's full domain in the afterlife.

Feral dogs are by far the most frequently encountered rabid animals and are uniquely associated with this type of possession, sometimes to the point that most other rabid animals encountered are assumed to have themselves been bitten by feral dogs (ie a beloved and well bred hunting dog who becomes rabid certainly has not eaten human flesh, so must have been bitten by a feral dog (which, in practice, is often correct)),

This heavily reinforces cultural disdain for feral dogs as all-around unlikable, unclean, diseased animals, and bites on humans (whether actually by a rabid animal or not) will often be responded to by mass localized culls. In villages, towns, and small cities, this is usually done by members of the public, but most major cities have specially devoted dog hunters who respond to reports of possible rabid animals, other problem dogs, and potential man-dogs (see next paragraph). In Godsmouth, this position is of enough importance that a certified dog hunter will be issued their own firearm, which they can legally carry while out on culls.

This is also the source of regional lycanthrope-esque folklore- someone who becomes fully possessed and is strong enough to fight off the physical disease associated will now become completely under the control of a doglike evil spirit and behave like a vicious wild dog, becoming a man-dog. (In reality, there is no rabies vaccine here and someone who has been bitten by a rabid animal has virtually no chance of survival unless they are lucky enough to avoid the infection to begin with).

Most variants of the folklore include that the possessed human physically transforms into a dog (depending on folklore this is either permanent, or the man-dog is human during the day and a dog at night). The man-dog then wanders at night, killing people and livestock as their possessing spirit compels them. Man-dogs do NOT spread their possession or create other man-dogs via bites, but are instead dangerous as particularly violent and bloodthirsty beasts that kill at random and mutilate the bodies of their victims.

Man-dogs may mate with normal feral dogs. The resulting pups are mundane, but assumed to be unusually powerful and vicious. In theory they should be killed, but believed man-dog feral pups are sometimes adopted to be kept as guard dogs, to be used in combat, or for dogfighting.

Vagrants (especially those that are mentally ill or otherwise have difficulties with communication) unlucky enough to be caught up in a man-dog scare may be accused of being the beast in human daylight form, and become victims of mob violence. Actual dogs accused of being man-dogs are usually not rabid (a man-dog would have fought off the physical disease and not exhibit symptoms), but rather healthy and notably aggressive individuals, especially those known to have attacked or killed people. There are no surefire visual methods of identifying a man-dog, though a dog having particularly human-shaped eyes is compelling evidence.

Note my dog's relatively narrow, humanlike eyes, visible whites, and haunted, distant gaze. This may very well be a man-dog.

Once killed, a man-dog (whether in human form or dog form) should be buried in barren earth (which prevents spiritual contamination and 'traps' the spirit in the ground) and the ground should be consecrated by a priest to prevent any chances of the spirit wandering further. Anyone who has touched the body should undergo a full purification and blessing to remove any lingering attachments and impurities.

There are also (rarer) man-lions, man-wolves ('wolves' here are naturalized wild descendants of ancient domestic dogs), man-jackals, man-hyenas, man-king hyena, etc. An individual wild predator that is NOT rabid but shows an uncharacteristic propensity for killing and eating people is often assumed to be a possessed and transformed person. These wild variants are equally feared, but may garner a sort of terrified respect and awe that is not afforded to man-dogs.

This is especially the case for man-lions (given lions are highly venerated animals in this cultural sphere). They will be hunted and killed just the same as other assumed man-beasts, but their bodies may instead be cremated with the same full rites as a human- a proper funeral as an act of respect for the slain foe may cause the man-lion spirit to be soothed and to favor its killers, and remain as a localized guardian, patrolling its territory like a lion and fighting off malicious spirits and living man-beasts. This specific treatment is unique to lions, as they are the only potential man-eaters widely held as sacred, and this sacred quality may allow the evil of their possessing spirit to be tempered and shifted into benevolence via proper respect.

[focsle]

Every day I come on the internet and the unfortunate algorithm feeds me videos of people being completely stupid about wild animals and ‘helping’ them (i.e. petting them and stressing them out further), and then I see more people saying ‘animals can match your energy they know when humans are trying to help stop being so critical of this person petting and filming some wild animal for internet clout, look how calm and peaceful the animal is’.

Humans are nothing but a potential predator, the wild animal isn’t reacting because it’s either in terror, or exhausted, or sick, you’re not a disney princess, and you’re gonna get rabies.

[catjest3r]

🌈 BIG necklace + singles I finished!! 🎪

I updated fluttershy's single because I got some butterfly beads, and BARK/meow are matching for me and biscuit~ 🐱💖🐶

[wikipediapictures]

Rabies vaccine

“Vaccine for oral vaccination in foxes.” - via Wikimedia Commons (original description translated from Bulgarian using Google Translate)

[k9punkout]

i forgot tills resting face is literally just.

no wonder this guy had zero friends if u told me to approach a man and he looking at me like THIS i'd move schools probably

[fun-eralsss]

DISEASED PRIDE: a term to describe a neurodivergent intersex person who is incredibly proud of who they are! made with autistic and obsessive compulsive individuals in mind (as i am autistic and obsessive compulsive), however, anyone who is under the neurodivergent umbrella is more than welcome to use it

VISUAL INSPIRATION: the rabies pride flag (created by @dirk-has-rabies ofc)! meant to be seen as a symbol of solidarity between the rabies-ridden and the diseased <3

ETYMOLOGY: shoutout to the terf who said that people like me are “diseased freaks who need to take their pills” choke on birth control (then cough it up so you can grow and change as a person, i would never wish death upon someone) <3