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It’s always a good time to talk about rabies exposure!!
1. It’s a virus (you’ll see it as lyssavirus, too)
2. If untreated, rabies is fatal. It will kill you dead as last night’s dinner, and it will suck the whole time you’re dying, and I mean it will SUCK. https://twitter.com/jorgensen4potus/status/1291889336422719488
More rabies facts:
3. Don’t touch wildlife unless @College_FIIT specifically says you can touch THAT particular wildlife thing. No raccoons, no bats, no armadillos (because you can get leprosy, aka Hansen’s Disease from them, too). Nothing. NAN WILDLIFE.
3. Don’t touch wildlife unless @College_FIIT specifically says you can touch THAT particular wildlife thing. No raccoons, no bats, no armadillos (because you can get leprosy, aka Hansen’s Disease from them, too). Nothing. NAN WILDLIFE.
4. Vaccinate every animal in your care. Talk to your vet. If it seems too pricey, call a rural animal rescue. They often buy vaccines in bulk and can give you the production codes for the vaccine.
5. This is the important one. My papaw told me this and this was not the joking Papaw, this was the serious scary one:
If you get bit by something with teeth, even through pants or gloves, wash it immediately, and get medical care.
Say this:
I HAVE A POSSIBLE RABIES EXPOSURE
If you get bit by something with teeth, even through pants or gloves, wash it immediately, and get medical care.
Say this:
I HAVE A POSSIBLE RABIES EXPOSURE
There are videos on YouBoob of people enduring the final stages of what’s technically known as “furious rabies.” Foaming at the mouth, etc.
It was filmed with the subject’s consent, for research, after the virus reached their brain and death was inevitable.
Don’t watch these.
It was filmed with the subject’s consent, for research, after the virus reached their brain and death was inevitable.
Don’t watch these.
There is no un-seeing what rabies can and will do. This zoonotic disease (meaning it can jump from ppl to animals) has been with us since before written history. Everyone who has ever developed it* after a bite or injury has died from it.
Everyone.
Everyone.
About that claim that everyone dies from it:
*There’s an induced coma treatment called the Mileaukee Protocol, but it’s only been successful once, I think, and it’s one of those cure-as-bad-as-the-disease things.
*There’s an induced coma treatment called the Mileaukee Protocol, but it’s only been successful once, I think, and it’s one of those cure-as-bad-as-the-disease things.
And remember, depending on where you are bitten, and how close that site is to your brain, makes a difference.
If you are bitten, seek medical care. I don’t care if you can’t afford it. We’ll boost your GFM. But please don’t die of rabies, I love you all too much.
If you are bitten, seek medical care. I don’t care if you can’t afford it. We’ll boost your GFM. But please don’t die of rabies, I love you all too much.
