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RE: Strange Diseases: Rabies (Ep. 1)

in #disease7 years ago

Great article and interesting topic!

Several years back I woke up at night to a bat circling my room. The bat escaped through a small gap in my bedroom window before we were able to have Animal Control capture and test it for rabies. According to the Poison Control Hotline, waking up to a bat in your room is not an uncommon occurrence, and standard protocol states that if you cannot capture the animal to confirm it was not carrying the rabies virus, you need to get vaccinated. The vaccination wasn't miserable, but it is certainly inconvenient. Although, still preferable to dying a miserable rabid death. :)

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Woah! That's crazy. Did you have any bad symptoms due to the vaccinations?

None that I can recall! Just the typical tenderness in the injection spot. The worst part was that the first vaccine of the series required supplementary immunoglobulin shots- one in each leg and one in each arm. That was slightly traumatic!

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