Re: SONOFABITCH!


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Bryan S. Slick wrote:
[ Thu, 04 May 2006 00:25:24 -0400 ]
[ Lone Victor | lone@xxxxxxxxxx ]
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:If not, go the emergency room of your hospital and get one right now.
:If you don't do it right away, they have a second procedure that can save your
:life a week from now, but it is notoriously painful.

I know someone who's gotten that second bit, and he insists that death
would probably have been the lesser of the two evils from which to
choose. It's one of those things you just don't bring up around him.

I'm confused...what are you guys talking about? The only known
treatment I've heard of for symptomatic rabies is induced coma.....what
is this one week later procedure?

I believe it's the 7 (14?) shots in the abdomen vs 7 shots in the
arms. (could be wrong).....there's really no effective treatment once
symptoms show up... I believe we're up to 2 documented cases of
survivors.

I thought it was 7 worldwide(1 with the induced coma, 6 with palliative
treatment), but maybe I read that wrong.....

I guess I'm confused as to why someone would present a week or two
after being bit with no symptoms vs. immediately or the next day. I
mean the symptoms wouldn't start that soon if you acquired
rabies(incubation period is typically like 6 weeks or so), but most
people don't know that. So why would they suddenly wake up on day 8
and say "you know, I was bit a little over a week ago and I might want
to get the rabies vaccine just in case". It seems like people would
either present very soon after being bit or just roll the dice and hope
the animal that bit them didn't have the rabies.......

Agreed. My understanding is the older (abdomen) treatment is more
effective, while the newer treatment is a lot less painful....hence the
time differential. Once the symptoms show up, you might as well be
buying the funeral package, because you're almost certainly dead.

Just because I was curious I looked up the # of rabies deaths since
1990, and the disease has basically been wiped out. An average of 1-2
per year in the whole country.

How many are exposed each year? The treatment is pretty much 100%
effective if given in time.

One wonders if we should been spending
200-300 million dollars on all these animal rabies vaccines and such
when it's not a human problem. I guess if nobody vaccinated their
animals it might be a more widespread problem though........

If pet-owners didn't vaccinate dogs and cats, it would become a
pretty big problem. Ditto for farm animals. There is still a good
amount of rabies in raccoons, skunks,bats, and foxes. It tends to start
(along the east coast) in southern Florida and then travel northward. A
new outbreak occurs every 5-6 years, just about the time the last
outbreak is burning itself out in the north. (This info might be
seriously out of date)


If I see a fox or whatever coming at me with a foaming mouth, I'm going
to choke it to death being really careful to avoid its mouth....

Why take the chance of touching it? That's why God gave us guns,
bats, and other superior delivery systems. Also, a rabid animal usually
isn't foaming at the mouth.











--
Bryan S. Slick, onyx_hokie at yahoo dot com

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sleigh
through the snow."

(Jeff Valdez)

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