Said a health official quoted in "Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows/The CDC's rabies team says it's tracking 15 different likely outbreaks from New York to Oregon" (NBC News)(citing 6 deaths from rabies in the U.S. in the past 12 months).
"The family petted and fed the animal until it died. They called animal services to pick up the body 'and thank God they did, because when they sent the brain out to be tested, it was positive, and so the whole family had to get vaccinated.... Oh, my gosh, they never would have known if they hadn’t called animal services.'"
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Another Chinese bioweapon.
It's within quotation marks so maybe that's what the health official actually said but I'm going with one "r" too many.
…day before yesterday the back yard camera caught a pack of five young raccoons on the prowl. There’s been several different groups or loners this year. Successful year for them here…
Five years ago I had to invest in a bear proof trash can because our roaming four foot tall raccoon figured out how to defeat three thick bungee cords holding the lids…
Raccoons infected with distemper can also lose their sense of caution around humans.
How many rabies deaths is typical?
…the suggestion is that’s a big number. Feels low to me since the raccoon population appears to be getting larger and the human population appears to be getting dumber…
I mean, have we tried this on people? To make them nicer?
Google sez in the last two decades it's an average of 2.5 though there were 5 in 2021. Almost all cases are contracted due to contact with wild animals.
Rabid foxes were an issue in the neighborhood wife and I first lived in from after leaving grad school. We also once saw a squirrel behaving strangely and called animal services, but they refused to come out because “squirrels can’t get rabies.” I don’t know if that’s true but in this case the squirrel had eaten overripe fruit from our elderly neighbors backyard fruit trees. They had waited too long to harvest and some of the fruit had fallen on the ground where it fermented. Poor little squirrel was drunk.
Time for Hollywood to remake Old Yeller.
What’s missing from the story: The obligatory link to climate change.
“Rocky Raccoon: Teh Reckoning”.
So the cases of rabies are tied to human stupidity.
Not to worry, RFK Jr is giving the outbreak his special attention. No raccoons will be forced to get any vaccines.
Fess Parker has the solution.
Friends of ours once woke in the middle of the night to a bat swooping around their bedroom. The husband tried to knock it down but it escaped, presumably as it had come in - now I can't recall whether they had had a broken screen or whether the bat broke it.
Everyone in the family had to go through the rabies treatment protocol, because apparently a bat bite (of that type, anyway) won't necessary be felt and its traces won't necessarily be seen, so they could all have been bitten. And without the actual bat, of course there was no way to know whether it was rabid. Why they even called anyone to ask if they should do anything, I don't know - it wouldn't have occurred to me!
Which reminds me that my husband thought he had "the world's smallest tick" on his arm yesterday, and I need to get him to ask his doctor about it in case it really was a tick and could have infected him with Lyme or some other dread ailment.
Anyway. If you find a bat in your house, trap it - or commit to going through the rabies treatment protocol.
There’s a strain of rabies where the animals get very, very friendly. Robert De Niro has the other kind.
Don't forget the recent grand Tetons' bats living in the attic of the grand lodge', with no timely intervention by the staff. The visitors are all now undergoing rabies treatments. I have a relative who stayed in a tent there, which had two bats visit. She just finished her rabies protocol.
Taking care of a sick raccoon which then dies on you, is obviously moronic. You shouldn't need animal control to tell you that. Stay away from sick wild animals!
stop sleeping with wild animals!
it's really that simple! STOP IT!
stop sleeping with wild animals!
it's really that simple! STOP IT!
Now pets or farm animals, on the other hand...
So contra the "walkout" story the CDC is still functioning without the lazy bureaucrats who walked out. Good to know.
“Anyway. If you find a bat in your house, trap it - or commit to going through the rabies treatment protocol.”
Animal control tells people to just open some doors and it will fly out. Bats will accidentally fly in at certain times of the year if a door is left open, like when bringing in groceries.
If you’re asleep and the bat is in your room, you could’ve been bitten or scratched unawares, so that might be worth getting the rabies protocol, from what I’ve read.
I have a high power air rifle to take care of the vermin problem. They're all cute until they start to destroy your infrastructure.
No no no, Inga. People should try to trap bats in their home so that they may test the animal for diseases that the person exposed themselves to by getting up close and personal with a panicked desperate wild creature using all it's power to resist being trapped. You libs lack common sense.🤪
Yes, that was my point, Inga. If the bat enters your house (or tent) while you're asleep, you may need to be prophylactically treated for rabies - something that, in the absence of a bite wound, might not be someone's first thought. So if you can safely trap it, you can find out if rabies treatment will be required. The way to do it is to close it in a closet or a room where it can't escape, though, not dart around with a butterfly net, it seems to me.
Or, as I said, just get the treatment.
I blame Walt Disney... and the weak minded that don't understand the "wild" in wild animals.
That’s some weird natural selection in the virus.
"They never would have known" - oh yes they would.
The internet says:
Cost of Rabies Shots for Humans
Rabies post-exposure treatment (including immunoglobulin) Up to $10,000 in the U.S.
Rabies vaccine (per dose) $3,706 to $10,494 in emergency rooms
Cost of Rabies Shots for Pets
Dogs
Initial vaccination (3 doses) $15 to $25 each
Annual booster $40 to $75
Cats
Type of Shot Average Cost
Initial vaccination $25 to $50
Annual booster $25 to $70
Can we also blame rabies as the inspiration for all these zombie movies?
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S.
"Seem"
I live in the country. I shoot every raccoon I can and burn the carcass. They will take over your barn and outbuildings if you let them. When the opossums return I know I have shot enough of them for a while.
Said the spider to the fly.
Said the witch to the children.
Said the wolf to red riding hood.
Said the abortionist to the mother.
Said Mengele to the dreamer.
Ambrose, my suspicion would be that the animals are weakened by the disease and they lack the energy to effectively run or fight, which is misinterpreted as docility.
"There’s people on the street getting diseases from monkeys
Yeah, that’s what I said - they’re getting diseases from monkeys
Now there’s junkies with monkey disease
Who’s touching these monkeys, please
Leave these poor sick monkeys alone
They’ve got problems enough as it is"
“I’m a flea-bit, peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
But dat’s not really true”
I give my dogs a once-a-month treat and it kills fleas, ticks, and certain worms. If they bite the dog, they die immediately and fall off.
I also hear the Lone Star tick can give a human a permanent allergy to red meat, with serious medical hazards.
Where's my monthly chew?
Elly May Clampett was a super-spreader.
Good news.
I was starting to be concerned that not enough people were having rabies nowadays.
Too expensive they say. Too much of a responsibility. And who'd want to have rabies in a world as mixed up and messed up as this one.
Reading the comments, I'm starting to remember that Old Yeller got rabies and had to be put down.
Wasn't "The Walking Dead" basically that same story told over and over again, only with zombies in place of rabies?
"Rabies vaccine (per dose) $3,706 to $10,494 in emergency rooms
Dogs
Initial vaccination (3 doses) $15 to $25 each
Annual booster $40 to $75"
I dressed up as a furry and demanded the vaccine. I'm good to go and saved a bundle.
The rest of you can just wear a mask and stay 6 ft away from everything with teeth.
I wish we could charge people less for prescriptions and pets more, but dogs and cats have spotty employment records and have yet to accumulate "generational wealth." They are essentially deadbeats who can't pay what pharmaceutical research requires.
We had a bat in the house some years ago. I trapped it (with the vacuum cleaner). We had it tested. It was rabid. We got the shots. Three visits to the doctor: rabies shot 1 + immunoglobulin, rabies shot 2, rabies shot 3—over a few weeks. It cost $11,000 per person, covered by insurance. The shots were not unusually painful.
Wince: "Elly May Clampett was a super-spreader."
If only....RR, JSM
Ref the costs of human vs pet rabies shots: As I said in another thread, what's the big difference between people and veterinary medical care? Does that difference create the cost differential? RR, JSM
I used to get bats in my house pretty often. I would catch them with a fishing net (landing net) and put them back outside. If I went through the rabies treatment every time, that would have cost $$$. Of course, I had no money at all back then and I doubt my local emergency room would have been eager to pony up for all 4 uninsured people in my house.
i don't understand why, with the government's LOVE of vaccines, they don't push rabies vaccines on people..
BUT
Y'all are comparing apples (dog PRE VACCINES)
with oranges (human rabies TREATMENT)
Let's compare oranges with oranges (since the government DON'T prescribe apples (pre vaccines) to people..
a human orange (rabies treatment) costs about $1,000
a dog orange (rabies treatment) is VERY inexpensive.
y'all DO Know what they do to dogs with rabies, don't you?
protip: watch Old Yeller.
i'm not at ALL Sure, that if *i* had rabies, i'd want to be put to sleep
Remember Atticus Finch shooting the rabid dog in the film? If you read the book, remember how he explained to Scout how she should never be allowed to serve on a jury because women are too emotional? Remenber Mayella Ewell was raped repeatedly by her father, and Atticus and the whole town knew it and did nothing?
What a shitty book.
And soon, Inga will be here to cut-n-paste 45,972 words to blame the rabies outbreak on anti-vaxxers. Or Trump voters. Take your pick.
Seems I spoke too soon. Good grief, woman. Get a life.
Gilbar: AFAIK there is only one recorded case of a human surviving a full-on case of rabies, so an actual infection is pretty much a death sentence but it is by all accounts a horrible way to die so me, I don't know if I'd quibble that much about the qualitative difference between a bullet to the brain and a lethal injection. Either one sounds quicker/better than the alternative.
I have a gutsy 90ish friend whose dog showed rabbies symptoms some 85 years ago. They let the kids say goodby before they sawed his head off to send to University of Alabama for testing. She grabbed her brother's hand and forced it in the cage. Both got bit, plus the father. All three had to have weeks of shots. The dog was rabid. She was five and didn't believe them.
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