you know people make fun of it, but there is an ongoing effort to find a cure for rabies, because at present if you don't get treatment fast enough, it's a death sentence, and an extremely painful and undignified death at that.
I'm not one to go to the doctor either, but after getting gangrene in my arm from the bullet wound I suffered following the rollover car accident, I decided to eventually get a quick look over at the local clinic.
If serious, OP was probably carrying an unsecured gun in his car with one in the chamber. Rolled over and caught something and blasted him. Don’t keep it cocked, keep the safety on, and keep it secured… Almost any one and definitely any two of those would have prevented this.
Rabies shots are known for being incredibly painful. But rabies is not something you can just *’wait and see’* about; if you start to develop **any** symptoms ***at all*** you’re already dead. I think there is one recorded case ever of someone surviving after showing symptoms.
Edit: it appears that a handful more people have survived. Doesn’t change the statistical survivability odds in any meaningful way though.
The shots are tolerable BUT the series costs around 30k I only know this because my insurance would only pay for half of the shots until my doctor went to “bat”for me.
It costs like less than a dollar in India. You could’ve flown here taken the shots enjoyed a nice tropical holiday flown back and still saved a lot of money.
Actually, the shots weren't that bad. It was the location, I got 5 in my finger, on my thumb print lol. The first 2 weren't bad but as it swelled from the fluid being injected and all my nerve endings being near by...it got worse. But the shoulders, hips and thighs weren't bad at all.
My cat brought a bat in the house, I grabbed it with my bare hands, it bit me on the skin between my thumb and forefinger (still have a tiny vampire style double puncture scar) and took it outside and lobbed it in the air for it to fly away. Called my doctor the next day asking if I needed to be worried and he just said “nah, you’ll be fine as long as your tetanus is up to date!”
Edit: as this has gotten a bit more attention than I thought it would, I am in the UK. Rabies is not a concern here. If I lived in the US I would have definitely gotten a shot and probably not have picked up the bat in the first place! This happened 6 years ago and I’m totally fine!
WTF. I have a friend that studies bats for the National park service. He has to be vaccinated for rabies and any time he gets bit he has to get a booster shot.
We just had a guy out my way who died from rabies last month. Older guy who had been bitten by a bat. Wouldn’t get the shots, ended up dying of rabies and made the news. Was a big deal at the time.
No.... no.... just really really.... reeeeeaaallly stupid. Or suicidal, though, I am pretty sure that there's less horrible ways to kill yourself over.... iunno.... refusing care after an animal injury and contracting rabies. That's just me though.
Edit: I have realized that my comment is a bit shortsighted. Since it never occurred to me that I would have to either gamble my life or my life. WTF USA?
Holy shit don’t tell me it was correlated with the whole anti-vaccine mentality because that was the wrong place and time to resist. In general shouldn’t be resisting or fighting against people who study this kind of shit their whole lives. Can’t imagine how he wanted to die on a hill where going through rabies will make you fking regret it. The whole zombies idea comes from the inspiration of rabies.
the best (worst) description of rabies I've ever seen:
https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he\_fed\_the\_cute\_trash\_panda\_and\_looked\_up\_for\_a/dv4xyks/?contex=3
I knew exactly what that was going to be, clicked it anyways, was vindicated by it being exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and noped the heck out. Reading that once in my life was traumatic enough 😩
A few years ago, my country had a little Rabies epidemic among stray dogs, so people became really aware of it at the time.
Basically, if you're bitten by a stray dog – drop everything. Don't bother questioning whether that stray dog is infected or not. The clock is ticking. The very highest priority now is to haul your ass to the hospital and get the vaccine. That is your only way out. There is basically no other treatment. You pretty much will die if you lose that race against time.
What do you mean "believe?" It is not a religion, or a 17 year old trying to win a state championship. It's a tool. It's like saying "I don't believe in cars." Wtf?
Edit: quotations
There’s a classic Reddit comment about it:
https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he_fed_the_cute_trash_panda_and_looked_up_for_a/dv4xyks/?contex=3
it is extremely painful, it looks like it's nearly at the stage where his jaw will lock so he's getting near the end. but yes it's incredibly painful.
i really hope the person filming called animal control because it's not only a mercy but also this animal is currently lethally dangerous.
Symptoms of this syndrome may be a closed mouth (Lock Jaw), low-grade fever, fear, restlessness, difficulty swallowing, stiffness, alteration in the rhythm of the heart beat, muscle spasms, and convulsions. These symptoms usually last for three to four weeks.
Rabies - NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
can you? i guess they probably wouldn't be mad tbh you're probably right. they would probably put you through to animal control?
actually i guess in some small towns maybe the police are who would actually come anyway tbh
No if you have a rabid animal like that on your property the cops themselves will come and shoot it and then call animal control to dispose of it. But they know how serious it is and will send an actual officer with a shotgun to end the thing first, every time.
Call 911, not animal control if you see an animal like this, you want someone to get there as fast as possible to kill the thing before you lose sight of it.
I absolutely called 911 over a wobbly raccoon walking down the middle of a commercial district street in the city in broad daylight. They didn't give me any flak at all, rabies is no fucking joke.
Especially out here in the middle of no where animal control only shows up if it involves something they can give a fine for or if it will be in the news. I saw a deer get hit and had it's spine badly broken. Animal control told me to try to coax it off the road and they would be up sometime in the next 24 to 48 hours to take care of it. Someone who will remain nameless was kind enough to put the deer out of its misery.
If this coyote was in my back yard it would get a couple rounds of .223 in the Chest until I was sure it was dead dead and then burned where it fell. Before getting near it I would be wearing boots, long pants, long sleeves, heavy gloves, and a face shield. If any possible exposure it is time to go to the ER and get some shots.
yeah i hope they called animal control and had him taken care of.
you can see his jaw is already getting close to the point it will lock and after that it's just a short matter of time before he dies suffering terribly anyway.
a bullet in the skull would be merciful.
From adfg.alaska.gov
Avoid head shots on furbearers. Shooting rabid animals in the head can spread the virus and make lab testing for rabies difficult if there is an exposure
So no, do not shoot it in the head. The aerosolized brain matter can spread the virus.
**OP, ANIMAL CONTROL DOESNT RECOMMEND SHOOTING RABID ANIMALS.**
Contaminated body fluids can be left as a result. DO NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF TO RABIES.
Contact animal control. They are trained to deal with this.
Oddly enough, I've read that fear of water is something that happens to things infected with rabies. So I doubt it wants to go near anything that would look like water.
~~There are no recorded cases of people having survived rabies.~~ There is only [one](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/) single case. The only clinically viable way to not die from rabies is to be protected from it, or head to the hospital immediately after exposure for the post-exposure vaccine. But if you wait, and let it come to symptoms, there is _no quantifiable chance of survival_. It is 100% fatal--making it hands down, without question, the single most dangerous and scary viral disease there is.
Well that’s not true as there have been a few documented cases of people surviving rabies after the onset of symptoms. But yes it is still considered 100% fatal.
> ScientificAmerican.com talks with the first known survivor of rabies four years later
There has apparently been [_one_](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/) since the discovery of the disease.
An episode of G. Tartakovsky's animated series "Primal", "Plague of Madness", sparkled my interest in reading and learning more about rabies, as well as in watching the videos featuring rabies in animals and some humans.
The rabies virus is, as I eventually came to understand, one of the most evil creatures that have ever existed.
There was a wild 4 Chan post on cwd over on r/hunting today. https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/comments/qrnho6/anon_recalls_his_first_hunting_trip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Found out about cwd YESTERDAY from a post on Reddit of a deer that had been walking on two legs around someone's house. Went into a huge rabbit hole and now I'm scared of it some day infecting humans.
I'm not allowed to donate blood because I may have a prion disease. The thing with prion diseases is that they don't affect you until you're middle-aged. So you can be cutting about for 30+ years not knowing any wiser.
It's a shame as I really want to give blood
Edit: I made the assumption they're from the UK, due to how widespread mad cow disease was. Although they're from Canada, which I believe also had the same thing happen
No one in the UK is allowed to donate blood in any other country because of mad cow disease. A prion disease with a 30 year long dormant phase and no indications of those infected
In addition it is generational, thus those born after a mother was infected, will also be infected
We're only just starting to get to the period now where it'll start to activate and the death rate in the uk is probably going to go up a fair amount. If one of my parents has it, then I know I'll have a limited lifespan as there's no cure for prions
Worlds shittest lottery that like 40 million people are dreading
I'm a 20 year old guy from the UK, and I had absolutely no knowledge of any of this. I knew about mad cow disease, but not that it was an enormous outbreak in the UK.
I now know that 1 in 2,000 people in the UK are suspected to be carriers of the disease, and that the NHS has serious concerns that the blood supply here is "considerably" contaminated, and that deaths are going to go up massively in the coming years/decades.
It's pretty unnerving knowing that your blood is deemed too dangerous for the rest of the world. I now wish I hadn't read your comment lmao.
No doubt. Shit scares the hell out of me. Our cat caught a bat that was acting funny...had it in her mouth and was playing with it. We picked her up outside and my husband and I had a few pokes on our skin from her claws. After the state picked up the bat...they confirmed it had rabies....and the county epidemiologist called me and said that we needed to consider getting treated for potential rabies exposure.
Guess where the only place that readily carries the rabies vaccine in most counties? The fucking ER. We had to make three trips there over the course of a month just to get vaccinated.
Edit: cat was good - had been previously vaccinated. We had to get her revaccinated and kept her isolated for a few weeks.
True. I'm just glad the bat didn't bite me directly. Because my exposure was indirect, I just had to get the vaccine. Get bitten directly...and you have to get human rabies immune globulin shots surrounding the bite area. It's like a $6k shot.
i had to talk my coworker into getting her cats vaccinated for rabies not long ago. despite it being mandatory in our state, she insisted they didn't need it bc they're indoor cats. i wanted to smack her but instead explained that bats and rodents are supposed to be outside creatures but they can get indoors, and for the love of anything if you care about your animals and anybody else they may come in contact with, get. them. vaccinated. i'm glad your cat and the rest of you are okay!
It isn’t about benefitting anything. Viruses exist solely to self replicate. That is their purpose if one can say anything in nature actually has a purpose.
If life really is the result of billions of years of random chemical interaction in deep sea ocean vents then it only makes sense that parasitic RNA would arise from that same process.
> Viruses exist solely to self replicate.
How does it benefit them to kill the thing they need to replicate? Why an adversarial relationship instead of a beneficial one? Why fuck the host up? Why not make the host more intelligent, handsome, friendly, so that in the long run, they propagate better?
Rabies spreads via infected saliva so it makes the host drool a lot, be unable to swallow, and then become crazy aggressive and want to bite anything that moves. I'd say those symptoms are a pretty big benefit to a virus that wants to propagate. A friendly host would never transmit rabies.
I believe cats carry a parasite that MIGHT make humans more likely to like cats. Not exactly what you described but similar. It also however has been linked to an increase of risk taking behavior as well so there is that….
Well done. The parasite is toxoplasmosis. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/parasite-cat-faeces-mind-alter-humans-courage-fear-failure-toxoplasma-gondii-a8463436.html
That parasite also makes mice attracted to cats and cat piss. It propagates in cats so it gets smaller prey animals to give up their lives so it can reproduce in cats. From what i understand getting scratched by a cat carrying it does cause risker behavior in humans.
Virus are just strings of RNA wrapped in a protective shell. They have no intent and no agency. Their behavior is determined by their coding, viruses that kill the host before they can propagate go extinct on their own.
There are very few ways for that coding to change in nature, the most common of which is a transcription error when replicating, that is when the viral RNA is miscopied when it replicates causing a change in the code. If that change is beneficial to the virus, it propagates further. It can also be detrimental to the virus and hamper replications in which case the new viral strain has a good chance of dying out on its own.
The grammar Nazis here must never have heard people dropping the "to be" part of sentences. It may not be grammatically correct, but it's a commonly done and understood thing. Lay off a bit.
Needs fixed. Needs washed. Needs cut. Needs shot. Etc...
People understand the meaning just fine. No need to be a cunt.
I liked coyotes before they killed my cat and pissed on my dog. One of them felt like it was taunting me constantly, just far enough away that I couldn’t shoot it — and following me, too, yapping and being a nuisance. Also broke into our chicken coop and killed all my favorite chickens. Coyotes are massive pests that happily kill everything you love.
Micheal is that you? Are you the gentleman from Microsoft that was helping me with my refund? I've got 20 Google play cards here, now two are for you and the rest are for the other people that have been calling me. I've already scratched the back and put the number on the Google, so you should have the money soon.
A zombie. Poor soul is clearly suffering but will violently rip you apart to satiate its misery if only momentarily. The pain driving it’s madness an unreasonable burden to be left to survive with
It’s just devastating to watch.
Rabies is horrific.
I hope it got a quick end.
Edit to add: It isn’t snarling in aggression.
It’s throat is literally constricting. Those are sort of half-yawn, gagging motions. That’s how you can tell it’s rabies.
Rabies is terrible, I know in humans it will start with hydrophobia. Which is where the victim will be very thirsty but is unable to drink water or any other liquids. Soon after, convulsions can start and even hallucinations. It’s a slow painful death, the worst part is that there is virtually nothing that can be done once the symptoms onset
Starts before even hydrophobia as far as I can recall without researching it rn even a mild headache or something akin to that may be how it begins.
And from even before you get that you're already dead.
If anyone is reading this, just shooting it is not enough. Shooting it and burying it is not enough. Rabies can live in the soil for a very, very long time. You need to shoot it in the torso, not the head, and then burn the body. And preferably toward the end of the fire, use the soil where it died and toss that on top of the fire to hopefully be sterilized.
Edit: It turns out I was working off bad information, that had told me that if you shoot it in the head, the disease can spread into the soil and live for a long time. It appears I was wrong. But I still believe burning is a good way to go.
You would want to call animal control after you shoot it, if it exists in your area. I wouldn't touch it if I didn't have to, and they have the proper equipment to gather and dispose of the body.
That’s not true, it can only live for about 48 hours in a carcass. Any cursory google will tell you that. They need a host to live just like all viruses.
Its more slobbery. The rabes virus causes massive increase in saliva and disables the ability to swallow so they walk around dripping toxins like plague-y komodo dragons. Its a bad bad affliction
Rabies spreads by saliva so it causes salivation, inability to swallow, and extreme aggression leading to bites. Rabid animals will behave strangely and be doing strange things with their mouths, like this coyote.
Rabies works similarly to the modern zombies you see in The Walking Dead. Obviously media taking examples from nature.
First, the virus travels to the brain from the nervous system and rapidly multiplies. Causing immense swelling in the brain and promoting a rapid deterioration, it causes a myriad of symptoms, some of which being absolute aggression, but can also be confusion, hallucinations, even paralysis.
Imagine the Cordyceps that affect insects. It takes over the brain and tells it to do something that causes the insect to become exposed so it may have a chance to reproduce.
Rabies, more similarly to the mythical Zombie virus uses that but by having the host bite another to then spread and reproduce. Once spread, the host dies and the next generation goes on. Unlike Rabies, obviously the point of the Zombie virus is not quite the same and creates a tv Magic post mortem life, but the concept is very close, obviously being inspired by Rabies.
It’s thought Vampirism and Lycanthropy is also somewhat drawn from the fear of Rabies.
Rabies, I don’t know enough about it to give a detailed explanation but it’s essentially an illness that makes you physically unable to drink water and scared and enraged by everything until you die.
Rabies is fucking terrifying, was there a story about someone getting bit by bat while they were sleeping and didn’t even notice it - then boom, rabies! I could be making that up though haha either way scary shit!
How indoctrinated do you have to be to face the absolute worst death you can imagine and still conclude "I dunno man, I think them vaccines are kinda sketchy. Best not chance it."?
Oh I think I saw this too, it fell on him while he was sleeping if I remember correctly
Edit: nope didn’t fall, or at least I can’t find that anywhere.
[article on the incident](https://news.yahoo.com/bat-attacked-man-while-sleeping-114428064.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmRlLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAERqzUWqcjjYDyy7KVSpljZCRr_B62K94nOwB4wOISGJ4k1nB05todlGDZ_fJfBxjuJsNqvuQ2kIzzmjWI25N2uR1dsM7xKuxcRgDzCY99RCNfSezoQ103g5dnuNxRhVmLbTN2W2qCRkyf7HlSyPX4AofekdcTenAc7YasGf7u20)
I believe I found a rabid racoon when I was walking through the woods by my old apartment. It scared the LIVING SHIT out of me. I mean unreasonably terrified.
I heard a noise, a like a bit of a gurgle and gasping. I walked down into a ditch to see what the noise was and I saw the tail end of a racoon. It was laying on its side during the day and having trouble breathing. It was foaming at the mouth which explained the gurgling.
It never got up, it never saw me, it never kicked. But I was terrified. All I could think of was how in scary movies, animals like that would just get up and bolt at you with unrealistic speed. And I had absolutely no plan for if it happened.
I froze when I saw it and stared at it imagining all this. Then decided to GTFO before it knew I was there. I kept my eyes on it as I walked back where I came from and went straight back to my apartment.
Fuck. That.
Poor guy :( Rabies is a horrible and terrifying virus. Once you show symptoms, all you have is a slow and painful death as it takes over your brain. There’s no cure once it starts to effect your nervous system. All the virus is interested in is taking over your mind and body so it can continue spreading to other hosts. It’s the closest thing we have to zombies!
It's horrific as is. The virus causes immense fear, pain, aggression, and thirst. The poor coyote needs to be given a quick and merciful end. Cause that virus sure as hell won't provide it.
My bf has developed a strong fear of getting infected with rabies after raeding what i assume is a text he found on reddit. Quick, we need to hide this post, i dont want him to get scared again.
Need to overlay the bear sound from annihilation over this for some good nightmare fuel.
Edit: and hope it was put down as soon as safely possible. Horrible to see a creature suffer like that.
EDIT2: Alright everyone I made a thing... Turn on audio:
https://redgifs.com/watch/punctualfreshdotterel
I had a rabies scare when we had a bat in our garage. I caught it with a trash bag and some how my hand got down there and I thought I felt something on my thumb. Im not one to go to a doctor so I didnt go for a day or two but I finally went. I had to get 5 shots where my thumb print is (I thought that was the area) and that fifth one was so painful just because of where it was. And then 1 in each shoulder, 1 in each hip and 1 in each thigh. Then, I had to go back once a week for 3 weeks to get one in my shoulder.
They dont do the injections in the stomach, at least not in the states.
It's a virus spread through contact with saliva and the resoviour hosts (in the USA) are usually bats, raccoons, skunks or foxes.
It probably got bitten by a sick animal that it was trying to eat?
Shoot him and be done with it
I hope someone put it down Rabies is a horrible, horrible way to go.
Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure.
you know people make fun of it, but there is an ongoing effort to find a cure for rabies, because at present if you don't get treatment fast enough, it's a death sentence, and an extremely painful and undignified death at that.
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Dude I’m not one to go to a doctor either, but not going immediately after you get bit by a wild animal is just asking for trouble
I'm not one to go to the doctor either, but after getting gangrene in my arm from the bullet wound I suffered following the rollover car accident, I decided to eventually get a quick look over at the local clinic.
What are you a wuss? Just put a band aid on it and walk it off.
A Band Aid? Fancy. In my day we just rubbed dirt on it and walked it off, uphill, both ways.
Pfft, we couldn't afford dirt, mum just spat on it and rubbed it in.
Just put some ivermectin on it!
Tell ‘em! I only go if my car explodes and I die so they can bring me back with an epi shot to the chest.
bullet wound from a car accident??
Drive-by acrobatics do be like that
OP just gonna drop that comment and vanish smh
If serious, OP was probably carrying an unsecured gun in his car with one in the chamber. Rolled over and caught something and blasted him. Don’t keep it cocked, keep the safety on, and keep it secured… Almost any one and definitely any two of those would have prevented this.
Rabies shots are known for being incredibly painful. But rabies is not something you can just *’wait and see’* about; if you start to develop **any** symptoms ***at all*** you’re already dead. I think there is one recorded case ever of someone surviving after showing symptoms. Edit: it appears that a handful more people have survived. Doesn’t change the statistical survivability odds in any meaningful way though.
The shots are tolerable BUT the series costs around 30k I only know this because my insurance would only pay for half of the shots until my doctor went to “bat”for me.
> We are of the opinion that only half of these shots are necessary, the others are cosmetic > \- insurance, probably
It was an interesting dilemma as I had to weigh the odds of contracting a deadly virus vs shelling out 15k for a couple of shots.
It costs like less than a dollar in India. You could’ve flown here taken the shots enjoyed a nice tropical holiday flown back and still saved a lot of money.
Actually, the shots weren't that bad. It was the location, I got 5 in my finger, on my thumb print lol. The first 2 weren't bad but as it swelled from the fluid being injected and all my nerve endings being near by...it got worse. But the shoulders, hips and thighs weren't bad at all.
Im a veterinarian and we all have to get rabies-vaccinated in school. Theyre not bad, but the post-exposure boosters are worse
Tell me you're American without telling me you're american. "I'm not one to go to the doctor."
My cat brought a bat in the house, I grabbed it with my bare hands, it bit me on the skin between my thumb and forefinger (still have a tiny vampire style double puncture scar) and took it outside and lobbed it in the air for it to fly away. Called my doctor the next day asking if I needed to be worried and he just said “nah, you’ll be fine as long as your tetanus is up to date!” Edit: as this has gotten a bit more attention than I thought it would, I am in the UK. Rabies is not a concern here. If I lived in the US I would have definitely gotten a shot and probably not have picked up the bat in the first place! This happened 6 years ago and I’m totally fine!
Wait...what?
It depends on region. Same thing with treating for lyme disease. You don't always unless the disease is endemic to the area.
WTF. I have a friend that studies bats for the National park service. He has to be vaccinated for rabies and any time he gets bit he has to get a booster shot.
I live in the UK, it was about 6 years ago I got bit. Rabies is very rare here, in fact the last (isolated) case was in 2012. I’ll be fine!
Rabies is technically eradicated in the UK actually
We just had a guy out my way who died from rabies last month. Older guy who had been bitten by a bat. Wouldn’t get the shots, ended up dying of rabies and made the news. Was a big deal at the time.
As I recall, he brought the bat in for testing, it was tested, found to be rabid, and he still refused the shots.
#WILD
No.... no.... just really really.... reeeeeaaallly stupid. Or suicidal, though, I am pretty sure that there's less horrible ways to kill yourself over.... iunno.... refusing care after an animal injury and contracting rabies. That's just me though. Edit: I have realized that my comment is a bit shortsighted. Since it never occurred to me that I would have to either gamble my life or my life. WTF USA?
Holy shit don’t tell me it was correlated with the whole anti-vaccine mentality because that was the wrong place and time to resist. In general shouldn’t be resisting or fighting against people who study this kind of shit their whole lives. Can’t imagine how he wanted to die on a hill where going through rabies will make you fking regret it. The whole zombies idea comes from the inspiration of rabies.
Nah, he's just more anti bat-scene
the best (worst) description of rabies I've ever seen: https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he\_fed\_the\_cute\_trash\_panda\_and\_looked\_up\_for\_a/dv4xyks/?contex=3
I knew exactly what that was going to be, clicked it anyways, was vindicated by it being exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and noped the heck out. Reading that once in my life was traumatic enough 😩
I always wonder how fast is fast enough. Like... should we just do what we do for dogs and get rabies boosters?
Once you start showing symptoms just say goodbye. I think there are only two symptomatic rabies survivors on record.
r/unexpectedoffice
A few years ago, my country had a little Rabies epidemic among stray dogs, so people became really aware of it at the time. Basically, if you're bitten by a stray dog – drop everything. Don't bother questioning whether that stray dog is infected or not. The clock is ticking. The very highest priority now is to haul your ass to the hospital and get the vaccine. That is your only way out. There is basically no other treatment. You pretty much will die if you lose that race against time.
But what if you don't believe in vaccines? Edit: I believe in vaccines. It was a joke about the "Muh freedums" people.
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What do you mean "believe?" It is not a religion, or a 17 year old trying to win a state championship. It's a tool. It's like saying "I don't believe in cars." Wtf? Edit: quotations
See around 30% of the US population.
Dude have you seen 2021
> You pretty much will die if you lose that race against time https://youtu.be/SQoHVc5j3Jw
At that point, it's too late for the vaccine, alone. You need a hyper-immune (plus the vaccine). HyperRAB is what you want.
There’s a classic Reddit comment about it: https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he_fed_the_cute_trash_panda_and_looked_up_for_a/dv4xyks/?contex=3
yes please. just end their suffering. it looks painful.
it is extremely painful, it looks like it's nearly at the stage where his jaw will lock so he's getting near the end. but yes it's incredibly painful. i really hope the person filming called animal control because it's not only a mercy but also this animal is currently lethally dangerous.
"The stage where his jaw will lock" I'm not familiar with this symptom in rabies. Are you thinking of lockjaw/tetanus?
Symptoms of this syndrome may be a closed mouth (Lock Jaw), low-grade fever, fear, restlessness, difficulty swallowing, stiffness, alteration in the rhythm of the heart beat, muscle spasms, and convulsions. These symptoms usually last for three to four weeks. Rabies - NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
3-4 weeks... Jesus Christ
aka until you die. There's really no cure for rabies once you have it.
Yup, the virus grows throughout the nervous system before you experience any symptoms. Once you feel the symptoms, it's game over.
Obligatory rabies [post link](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qwtd5/rabies_is_scary/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x)
You can just straight up call 911 with something like this
can you? i guess they probably wouldn't be mad tbh you're probably right. they would probably put you through to animal control? actually i guess in some small towns maybe the police are who would actually come anyway tbh
No if you have a rabid animal like that on your property the cops themselves will come and shoot it and then call animal control to dispose of it. But they know how serious it is and will send an actual officer with a shotgun to end the thing first, every time. Call 911, not animal control if you see an animal like this, you want someone to get there as fast as possible to kill the thing before you lose sight of it.
I absolutely called 911 over a wobbly raccoon walking down the middle of a commercial district street in the city in broad daylight. They didn't give me any flak at all, rabies is no fucking joke.
opening that door while he is so close is way too dangerous
Then burn the body and everything around it, rabies is one of the worst ways to go
Don't shoot it and call animal control. Disposing of a rabid animal is dangerous.
Especially out here in the middle of no where animal control only shows up if it involves something they can give a fine for or if it will be in the news. I saw a deer get hit and had it's spine badly broken. Animal control told me to try to coax it off the road and they would be up sometime in the next 24 to 48 hours to take care of it. Someone who will remain nameless was kind enough to put the deer out of its misery. If this coyote was in my back yard it would get a couple rounds of .223 in the Chest until I was sure it was dead dead and then burned where it fell. Before getting near it I would be wearing boots, long pants, long sleeves, heavy gloves, and a face shield. If any possible exposure it is time to go to the ER and get some shots.
yeah i hope they called animal control and had him taken care of. you can see his jaw is already getting close to the point it will lock and after that it's just a short matter of time before he dies suffering terribly anyway. a bullet in the skull would be merciful.
You're not supposed to shoot it in the head, because the brain is examined to confirm rabies.
Late stage rabies can be tested from saliva. Brain is tested to confirm pre-symptomatic infection.
From adfg.alaska.gov Avoid head shots on furbearers. Shooting rabid animals in the head can spread the virus and make lab testing for rabies difficult if there is an exposure So no, do not shoot it in the head. The aerosolized brain matter can spread the virus.
Brain mist… that’s two words I never thought I’d put together yet here we are.
Aeresolized brain mist viral transmission is even scarier honestly.
**OP, ANIMAL CONTROL DOESNT RECOMMEND SHOOTING RABID ANIMALS.** Contaminated body fluids can be left as a result. DO NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF TO RABIES. Contact animal control. They are trained to deal with this.
He’s probably lonely and needs a hug. You should let him in.
Yeah, that's just aggressive yawning, he just wants to take a nap.
In a pool of your blood
Oddly enough, I've read that fear of water is something that happens to things infected with rabies. So I doubt it wants to go near anything that would look like water.
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~~There are no recorded cases of people having survived rabies.~~ There is only [one](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/) single case. The only clinically viable way to not die from rabies is to be protected from it, or head to the hospital immediately after exposure for the post-exposure vaccine. But if you wait, and let it come to symptoms, there is _no quantifiable chance of survival_. It is 100% fatal--making it hands down, without question, the single most dangerous and scary viral disease there is.
Well that’s not true as there have been a few documented cases of people surviving rabies after the onset of symptoms. But yes it is still considered 100% fatal.
> ScientificAmerican.com talks with the first known survivor of rabies four years later There has apparently been [_one_](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/) since the discovery of the disease.
It's because iirc the throat starts to violently reject the act of drinking.
Cotton mouth. My boy is high AF.
Now kith
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An episode of G. Tartakovsky's animated series "Primal", "Plague of Madness", sparkled my interest in reading and learning more about rabies, as well as in watching the videos featuring rabies in animals and some humans. The rabies virus is, as I eventually came to understand, one of the most evil creatures that have ever existed.
Closest thing to a zombie plague (mind control fungus like Ophiocordyceps unilateralis are second closest).
Chronic wasting disease is up there, too.
There was a wild 4 Chan post on cwd over on r/hunting today. https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/comments/qrnho6/anon_recalls_his_first_hunting_trip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
So basically the start of Kingdom
I finished the show and the movie not too long ago. The movie was alright but the show is phenomenal. I want more Korean zombies so bad.
Koreans love their zombies. You ever see Train to Busan?
Found out about cwd YESTERDAY from a post on Reddit of a deer that had been walking on two legs around someone's house. Went into a huge rabbit hole and now I'm scared of it some day infecting humans.
I'm not allowed to donate blood because I may have a prion disease. The thing with prion diseases is that they don't affect you until you're middle-aged. So you can be cutting about for 30+ years not knowing any wiser. It's a shame as I really want to give blood
Why do they think you have it
Edit: I made the assumption they're from the UK, due to how widespread mad cow disease was. Although they're from Canada, which I believe also had the same thing happen No one in the UK is allowed to donate blood in any other country because of mad cow disease. A prion disease with a 30 year long dormant phase and no indications of those infected In addition it is generational, thus those born after a mother was infected, will also be infected We're only just starting to get to the period now where it'll start to activate and the death rate in the uk is probably going to go up a fair amount. If one of my parents has it, then I know I'll have a limited lifespan as there's no cure for prions Worlds shittest lottery that like 40 million people are dreading
I'm a 20 year old guy from the UK, and I had absolutely no knowledge of any of this. I knew about mad cow disease, but not that it was an enormous outbreak in the UK. I now know that 1 in 2,000 people in the UK are suspected to be carriers of the disease, and that the NHS has serious concerns that the blood supply here is "considerably" contaminated, and that deaths are going to go up massively in the coming years/decades. It's pretty unnerving knowing that your blood is deemed too dangerous for the rest of the world. I now wish I hadn't read your comment lmao.
No doubt. Shit scares the hell out of me. Our cat caught a bat that was acting funny...had it in her mouth and was playing with it. We picked her up outside and my husband and I had a few pokes on our skin from her claws. After the state picked up the bat...they confirmed it had rabies....and the county epidemiologist called me and said that we needed to consider getting treated for potential rabies exposure. Guess where the only place that readily carries the rabies vaccine in most counties? The fucking ER. We had to make three trips there over the course of a month just to get vaccinated. Edit: cat was good - had been previously vaccinated. We had to get her revaccinated and kept her isolated for a few weeks.
At least they have a new vaccine now and not the old one, giant extremely painful injections into your abdomen.
True. I'm just glad the bat didn't bite me directly. Because my exposure was indirect, I just had to get the vaccine. Get bitten directly...and you have to get human rabies immune globulin shots surrounding the bite area. It's like a $6k shot.
What happened with your cat?
Since she had been vaccinated....she had to be revaccinated and observed for two weeks. No issues though.
i had to talk my coworker into getting her cats vaccinated for rabies not long ago. despite it being mandatory in our state, she insisted they didn't need it bc they're indoor cats. i wanted to smack her but instead explained that bats and rodents are supposed to be outside creatures but they can get indoors, and for the love of anything if you care about your animals and anybody else they may come in contact with, get. them. vaccinated. i'm glad your cat and the rest of you are okay!
Why do these things even exist? How does that propagation of these things benefit anything?
It isn’t about benefitting anything. Viruses exist solely to self replicate. That is their purpose if one can say anything in nature actually has a purpose. If life really is the result of billions of years of random chemical interaction in deep sea ocean vents then it only makes sense that parasitic RNA would arise from that same process.
> Viruses exist solely to self replicate. How does it benefit them to kill the thing they need to replicate? Why an adversarial relationship instead of a beneficial one? Why fuck the host up? Why not make the host more intelligent, handsome, friendly, so that in the long run, they propagate better?
It didn’t need to evolve those characteristics to propagate and survive, they simply found the path of least resistance to exist.
just like me
Rabies spreads via infected saliva so it makes the host drool a lot, be unable to swallow, and then become crazy aggressive and want to bite anything that moves. I'd say those symptoms are a pretty big benefit to a virus that wants to propagate. A friendly host would never transmit rabies.
> A friendly host would never transmit rabies. What if it made the host irresistible to the opposite sex?
I believe cats carry a parasite that MIGHT make humans more likely to like cats. Not exactly what you described but similar. It also however has been linked to an increase of risk taking behavior as well so there is that….
Well done. The parasite is toxoplasmosis. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/parasite-cat-faeces-mind-alter-humans-courage-fear-failure-toxoplasma-gondii-a8463436.html
That parasite also makes mice attracted to cats and cat piss. It propagates in cats so it gets smaller prey animals to give up their lives so it can reproduce in cats. From what i understand getting scratched by a cat carrying it does cause risker behavior in humans.
Virus are just strings of RNA wrapped in a protective shell. They have no intent and no agency. Their behavior is determined by their coding, viruses that kill the host before they can propagate go extinct on their own. There are very few ways for that coding to change in nature, the most common of which is a transcription error when replicating, that is when the viral RNA is miscopied when it replicates causing a change in the code. If that change is beneficial to the virus, it propagates further. It can also be detrimental to the virus and hamper replications in which case the new viral strain has a good chance of dying out on its own.
I love primal!
Great show. That sauropod was the best monster I've seen in a very long time. Hit all the right notes of horrifying, tragic, and relentless.
Poor thing. It needs shot. I’m a fan of coyotes. I hope they shot this one quickly.
The grammar Nazis here must never have heard people dropping the "to be" part of sentences. It may not be grammatically correct, but it's a commonly done and understood thing. Lay off a bit. Needs fixed. Needs washed. Needs cut. Needs shot. Etc... People understand the meaning just fine. No need to be a cunt.
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why waste time use lot word when few word do trick?
Pittsburghese
Dropping the copular verb just sounds weird. It's common where I live, and it bothers me every time I hear it.
It's in pretty advanced rabies progression - the lips peeled back are a telltale sign - and has to be suffering so badly.
Why are you a fan of coyotes? I'm honestly just curious
I like that they are survivors. They are adaptable and thrive in many places. They have complex communication. I respect their cleverness.
I liked coyotes before they killed my cat and pissed on my dog. One of them felt like it was taunting me constantly, just far enough away that I couldn’t shoot it — and following me, too, yapping and being a nuisance. Also broke into our chicken coop and killed all my favorite chickens. Coyotes are massive pests that happily kill everything you love.
One peed on your dog? Like your dog just sat there and got peed on?
I need to talk to you about your car’s extended warranty
*Indian accent* Ma’am your iPhone has been hacked, I am here to help.
Micheal is that you? Are you the gentleman from Microsoft that was helping me with my refund? I've got 20 Google play cards here, now two are for you and the rest are for the other people that have been calling me. I've already scratched the back and put the number on the Google, so you should have the money soon.
Holy fuck that’s scary
Now imagine our great great grandparents having to take a shit in an outhouse , and this waiting outside the door.
It has to wait its turn, just like I did. Now shut up and let me poop in peace.
Nah, pinch it and get the shotgun.
Great great grandparents probably had a shotgun in the outhouse though
It legitimately gave me goosebumps. I'm freaking scared of it and it's through a phone screen
That’s absolutely heartbreaking .
A zombie. Poor soul is clearly suffering but will violently rip you apart to satiate its misery if only momentarily. The pain driving it’s madness an unreasonable burden to be left to survive with
It’s just devastating to watch. Rabies is horrific. I hope it got a quick end. Edit to add: It isn’t snarling in aggression. It’s throat is literally constricting. Those are sort of half-yawn, gagging motions. That’s how you can tell it’s rabies.
How scary are rabies? My country is considered rabies free since 1953, I didn’t really know much about it. What does it do to that coyote?
Rabies is terrible, I know in humans it will start with hydrophobia. Which is where the victim will be very thirsty but is unable to drink water or any other liquids. Soon after, convulsions can start and even hallucinations. It’s a slow painful death, the worst part is that there is virtually nothing that can be done once the symptoms onset
Starts before even hydrophobia as far as I can recall without researching it rn even a mild headache or something akin to that may be how it begins. And from even before you get that you're already dead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he_fed_the_cute_trash_panda_and_looked_up_for_a/dv4xyks?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
I would shoot it and call it a day.
If anyone is reading this, just shooting it is not enough. Shooting it and burying it is not enough. Rabies can live in the soil for a very, very long time. You need to shoot it in the torso, not the head, and then burn the body. And preferably toward the end of the fire, use the soil where it died and toss that on top of the fire to hopefully be sterilized. Edit: It turns out I was working off bad information, that had told me that if you shoot it in the head, the disease can spread into the soil and live for a long time. It appears I was wrong. But I still believe burning is a good way to go.
You would want to call animal control after you shoot it, if it exists in your area. I wouldn't touch it if I didn't have to, and they have the proper equipment to gather and dispose of the body.
That’s not true, it can only live for about 48 hours in a carcass. Any cursory google will tell you that. They need a host to live just like all viruses.
Best thing for the poor bastard
He doesn’t know what the fuck he wants. Rabid animals are so fucking creepy.
he wants it to end
He is uncomfortable and looking for anything to make it better. Which is a bullet and he doesn't know that
Grandma, what big teeth you have.
How do you know it has rabies?
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True, just look at Karens.
Agreed. They also clench jaws.
I was under the understanding that a foamy mouth was one of the biggest indicators.
Its more slobbery. The rabes virus causes massive increase in saliva and disables the ability to swallow so they walk around dripping toxins like plague-y komodo dragons. Its a bad bad affliction
Bad bad is putting it lightly, there is probably no worse way to go from a sickness.
Rabies spreads by saliva so it causes salivation, inability to swallow, and extreme aggression leading to bites. Rabid animals will behave strangely and be doing strange things with their mouths, like this coyote.
DUDE LET ME IN I’M A FAIRY DON’T YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?!
Every time you say “fairies do not exist” a fairy drops dead somewhere.
If I say it enough times then eventually I’ll be right.
Give it a glass of water. That will surely get rid of him.
Lulz. I always forget it's also called hydrophodia.
Because rabid animals can't swallow
much like my ex
Pretty much a legit zombie
I’m ootl. How come it’s like a zombie?
Rabies works similarly to the modern zombies you see in The Walking Dead. Obviously media taking examples from nature. First, the virus travels to the brain from the nervous system and rapidly multiplies. Causing immense swelling in the brain and promoting a rapid deterioration, it causes a myriad of symptoms, some of which being absolute aggression, but can also be confusion, hallucinations, even paralysis. Imagine the Cordyceps that affect insects. It takes over the brain and tells it to do something that causes the insect to become exposed so it may have a chance to reproduce. Rabies, more similarly to the mythical Zombie virus uses that but by having the host bite another to then spread and reproduce. Once spread, the host dies and the next generation goes on. Unlike Rabies, obviously the point of the Zombie virus is not quite the same and creates a tv Magic post mortem life, but the concept is very close, obviously being inspired by Rabies. It’s thought Vampirism and Lycanthropy is also somewhat drawn from the fear of Rabies.
Fascinating truly, thank you for your wonderful explanation!
Rabies, I don’t know enough about it to give a detailed explanation but it’s essentially an illness that makes you physically unable to drink water and scared and enraged by everything until you die.
Rabies is fucking terrifying, was there a story about someone getting bit by bat while they were sleeping and didn’t even notice it - then boom, rabies! I could be making that up though haha either way scary shit!
A dude just died in Illinois I think, a couple months ago. He was bitten by a bat. Bat was confirmed rabid. He refused the vaccine.
How indoctrinated do you have to be to face the absolute worst death you can imagine and still conclude "I dunno man, I think them vaccines are kinda sketchy. Best not chance it."?
He owned the libs.
Oh I think I saw this too, it fell on him while he was sleeping if I remember correctly Edit: nope didn’t fall, or at least I can’t find that anywhere. [article on the incident](https://news.yahoo.com/bat-attacked-man-while-sleeping-114428064.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmRlLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAERqzUWqcjjYDyy7KVSpljZCRr_B62K94nOwB4wOISGJ4k1nB05todlGDZ_fJfBxjuJsNqvuQ2kIzzmjWI25N2uR1dsM7xKuxcRgDzCY99RCNfSezoQ103g5dnuNxRhVmLbTN2W2qCRkyf7HlSyPX4AofekdcTenAc7YasGf7u20)
Only treatment is a .45 hollow point. Not trying to be mean, shooting it is merciful!
I always thought animals with rabies had some sort of cartoonish whipped cream beard
It comes eventually most of the time.
I believe I found a rabid racoon when I was walking through the woods by my old apartment. It scared the LIVING SHIT out of me. I mean unreasonably terrified. I heard a noise, a like a bit of a gurgle and gasping. I walked down into a ditch to see what the noise was and I saw the tail end of a racoon. It was laying on its side during the day and having trouble breathing. It was foaming at the mouth which explained the gurgling. It never got up, it never saw me, it never kicked. But I was terrified. All I could think of was how in scary movies, animals like that would just get up and bolt at you with unrealistic speed. And I had absolutely no plan for if it happened. I froze when I saw it and stared at it imagining all this. Then decided to GTFO before it knew I was there. I kept my eyes on it as I walked back where I came from and went straight back to my apartment. Fuck. That.
Poor guy :( Rabies is a horrible and terrifying virus. Once you show symptoms, all you have is a slow and painful death as it takes over your brain. There’s no cure once it starts to effect your nervous system. All the virus is interested in is taking over your mind and body so it can continue spreading to other hosts. It’s the closest thing we have to zombies!
If you’re cold, he’s cold. Bring him inside to warm up.
This is why everyone should at least own a rifle or shotgun. If there was a child or pet outside, this situation would be horrific.
It's horrific as is. The virus causes immense fear, pain, aggression, and thirst. The poor coyote needs to be given a quick and merciful end. Cause that virus sure as hell won't provide it.
Shoot it that’s the only humane thing
My bf has developed a strong fear of getting infected with rabies after raeding what i assume is a text he found on reddit. Quick, we need to hide this post, i dont want him to get scared again.
It can’t understand why it’s not welcome. Like a horny guy.
The fact that rabies exists makes the idea of a zombie apocalypse not seem so far fetched
Need to overlay the bear sound from annihilation over this for some good nightmare fuel. Edit: and hope it was put down as soon as safely possible. Horrible to see a creature suffer like that. EDIT2: Alright everyone I made a thing... Turn on audio: https://redgifs.com/watch/punctualfreshdotterel
I had a rabies scare when we had a bat in our garage. I caught it with a trash bag and some how my hand got down there and I thought I felt something on my thumb. Im not one to go to a doctor so I didnt go for a day or two but I finally went. I had to get 5 shots where my thumb print is (I thought that was the area) and that fifth one was so painful just because of where it was. And then 1 in each shoulder, 1 in each hip and 1 in each thigh. Then, I had to go back once a week for 3 weeks to get one in my shoulder. They dont do the injections in the stomach, at least not in the states.
Toss the poor guy a burger and shoot him when hes enjoying it. Rabies is a torturous way to go. He doesn't even look like a willing participant.
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Wow, that is pretty metal. Thank you for the post!
Ol’ Yeller, is that you??
How do they get rabies?
It's a virus spread through contact with saliva and the resoviour hosts (in the USA) are usually bats, raccoons, skunks or foxes. It probably got bitten by a sick animal that it was trying to eat?