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re: Rabies - how long after exposure do you have to get treatment?
Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:35 pm to MaroonWhite
Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:35 pm to MaroonWhite
good friend of mines uncle died from it back in the 50s or 60s in italy. got bit by a sheep herding dog walking home from school. for the last few days before he passed he was said to have started barking and acting like a dog.
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Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:39 pm to chinhoyang
Isn't rabies one of those things that once it takes hold you’re totally fricked?
Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:48 pm to chinhoyang
Does the notion of drinking water make you ill?
Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:52 pm to Jim Rockford
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FWIW the rabies shots used to be an ordeal. They're not so bad any more.
No worse than a flu shot, really. The days of the injections into the abdomen are long gone, pretty much even in the third world.
ETA: A series of flu shots, to be closer to the truth. They'll inject immunoglobulin around the bite and the vaccine in your arm. They give you several more doses of the vaccine spaced out days apart, but they're given in the big muscle in your bicep exactly where they put the flu shot.
If I were bitten by an animal exhibiting symptoms of rabies, I'd INSTANTLY shitcan any doctor that took a wait and see attitude. The CDC's guidelines are for prophylaxis beginning the day of exposure, bite or no bite. Let that sink in. Even if you've not been bitten by the animal you had contact with, the CDC recommends prophylaxis begin immediately. The prophylaxis is the only thing between you and an unimaginably horrific death if the animal is, in fact, rabid.
I think I'd be VERY tempted to get physically violent with a doctor that wanted to wait until tests on the animal came back.
Or maybe that's just the rabies talking. Who knows?
This post was edited on 6/30/19 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 6/30/19 at 2:55 pm to EXPLAYER
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Wasn’t it given in belly button?
That's old school, when the virus for the vaccine was grown in duck eggs.
Nowadays, it's done it human tissue culture, so it isn't as big a deal any more.
It was given in the abdomen because A) it couldn't be purified as much and B) the impurities caused a local immune reaction totally separate from the rabies protection. Put that together and you needed a lot of shots, and you needed an area of the body where you could keep fitting a needle in between the local reaction sites. It was nasty, by all accounts. (but it worked, so what are you gonna do?)
Nowadays, the vaccine can be much more easily purified, and what impurities are left don't cause such a big reaction, so it's a relatively small number of shots in the arm.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:25 pm to Volvagia
CDC
"Human Rabies
Human rabies cases in the United States are rare, with only 1 to 3 cases reported annually. Twenty-three cases of human rabies have been reported in the United States in the past decade (2008-2017). Eight of these were contracted outside of the U.S. and its territories."
I did some research on rabies some time ago. I believe most if not all the recent cases were the result of traveling overseas.
"Human Rabies
Human rabies cases in the United States are rare, with only 1 to 3 cases reported annually. Twenty-three cases of human rabies have been reported in the United States in the past decade (2008-2017). Eight of these were contracted outside of the U.S. and its territories."
I did some research on rabies some time ago. I believe most if not all the recent cases were the result of traveling overseas.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 7:10 pm to SlapahoeTribe
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Isn't rabies one of those things that once it takes hold you’re totally fricked?
I'm not a doctor but I think if symptoms of rabies are present in humans, it is fatal. There are very few and maybe only an occasion or two when it has not been fatal. The county where I live has reported occurrences of rabies in wild animals. I don't remember if it was skunks or raccoons. And I've seen recently a bat behaving strangely after sunrise which piqued my interest when it flew close to me. I just got the hell away from it.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 8:02 pm to chinhoyang
WHAT IN THE HELL?
Just when I thought I’d damned near seen everything on the OT
Just when I thought I’d damned near seen everything on the OT
Posted on 6/30/19 at 10:15 pm to chinhoyang
Posted on 6/30/19 at 10:55 pm to chinhoyang
The first person to live theough rabies was like a decade ago, and they had to cause a medical coma.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 2:06 am to chinhoyang
Isn’t there like a damn near 100% fatality rate if symptoms present in the infected person before they get treated? I’m not risking anything.
Posted on 7/1/19 at 2:14 am to chinhoyang
Incubation period is usually 3-6 months but with a case like this, they should get treated immediately.
Once symptoms begin they will 100% die
Once symptoms begin they will 100% die
Posted on 7/1/19 at 2:19 am to chinhoyang
He’s a dead man walking. Should’ve gotten the shot immediately. Proceed with the funeral arrangements
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