re: Anyone ever had to have the Rabies Immune Globulin

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On Oct. 5, 1967, the Army and the state announced an 8-year-old Schofield boy had been bitten by a rat diagnosed as rabid. But repeated tests at mainland laboratories failed to show any rabies. It later came out that misdiagnosis and laboratory mix-ups accounted for the scare, which was triggered by the Army Medical Laboratory, under the direction of Lt. Col. Edward E. Dean, a veterinarian who had diagnosed 27 cases, with the assistance of state Veterinarian-Pathologist Dr. Frederick Lynd. It took more than three months for the Army and state to admit a mistake. Hawaii was still rabies-free. But thousands of cats, dogs and other pets received anti-rabies shots. An estimated 60,000 doses of vaccine were received from the mainland by Oahu veterinarians. Some 2,500 dogs and cats were put to sleep by the Humane Society. Eighty-one persons received anti-rabies shots from the Army after they were bitten or scratched by suspicious animals. Civilian physicians gave an estimated 50 or more anti-rabies shots.

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Death...but the odds of being bitten by a rabid bat are worse then winning the lottery.

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