A rabies outbreak in Ithumba elephant reserve could spell disaster - BBC wildlife

[SuperShit411]

DID THEY JUST BURN THE DOG?

[JOHN316503]

To all the ignorant people in this world!! RABIES IS FATAL IN HUMANS AS SOON AS THE SYMPTOMS START!!!!

[TangoSlapp]

I would be scared if I pick up a phone and said one word - "RABIES!!!!!"

[Saureusisnofun]

The tetanus shot will protect you from a bacteria called clostridium tetani for 8 years before a booster is needed. Rabies is a virus, you will not get a vaccine unless you are bitten by an animal that has rabies or if you are bitten and they don't know (bats are problems). ~5000 Americans get it each year but progression is so slow the vaccine can be given after the bite and transmission of rabies and you will still be ok. Almost no one in the US gets real sick with rabies because of this.

[Budda2k62k6]

OMFG ZOMBIE ELEFANTS! Why has no regiseur ever though of that^^ that'd do a great movie

[lexmark136]

Rabbies for the animals, aids for the humans... that country is fuked! haha

[Calpico852]

...omg

the dog was killed with sticks and bars

[radicalone71]

ZOMBIE ELEPHANTS!!!

[shadowhunter388]

What does rabies do to a human does it make the human go into a 28 weeks later thing where they go crazy and try to bite you and run off like a ape running while using its two front hands as 4 legs like guerrillas do when they run?

[cambridgeratmom]

I believe this story had a happy ending and that none of the eles needed to be euthanized.

[Chocolatecandy1961]

me+rabied animal=dead animal

[Diaweyr]

Some non-mammals (some snake and shark species, for instance) have live births, instead of laying eggs. The duck-billed platypus and spiny ant-eater both lay eggs. Rabies in birds has been produced in laboratories (intentional infection) but it has never been known to occur in the wild. Still it is remotely possible. Gee folks, do some research instead of arguing in ignorance on You Tube!

[Nightl3lade]

Rabies infected elephant zombies.

[Grimreaperheadbangin]

rage rabies means ZOMBIEEESSS

[AndrewEpicWins]

Thats what I kinda think of rabies.They are like zombies that after getting symptoms you go insane and get violent.

[Treblinka2012]

@AndrewEpicWins Yeah sorta like a AIDS patient ...thats why i call it GAY RABIES

[icedragonSg]

@AndrewEpicWins Yeah it is for animals. Except it kills you too fast and doesn't effect humans like that.

[toomdevil]

@Grimreaperheadbangin Well if a dog gets rabies he fomes from the mouth and is hyper aggressive.

If a human does, he gets shots or dies. but swine flu evolved to humans, Rabies might too.

[chris5701]

@toomdevil rabies can be found in all mammals its a rare virus, the only reason why it has few casualties in developed countries is due to its long incubation time compared to the immune response time. there are 55,000 deaths from rabies each year world wide. an animal can only transmit the disease if it has the disease, and for a short period it can infect others with few symptoms of rabies

[Juelzsanpana]

@toomdevil humans can get rabies... It just doesn't have the same affects on humans.. and very few people die from rabies... VERY few

[SupremeAmerican]

@Juelzsanpana it happens all the time. some countries cannot afford to help rabies infected humans, and those people go untreated, and always die. the symptoms are identical. One case has been recorded of a human surviving rabies without the full vaccine and treatment.

[skramamme]

@Juelzsanpana Actually rabies in humans causes exactly the same symptoms, including hydrophobia, excessive salivation, paralysis and death. And whilst very few people in developed countries like the US die from rabies, people in poorer countries who don't have access to the vaccine contract and die from rabies all the time.

The West =/= the world, so get your facts straight before making such ridiculous statements.

[valarmanwe]

@Juelzsanpana Huum. Very few people die from rabies, comparatively. Far, far more people die from malaria. But that`s because far, far more people contract malaria.

About 55000 people - worldwide - contract rabies each year. And all of them die.

There is of course the case of Giana Guisee ( forgive the spelling ). But hers is a case so rare it - to my knowledge - has never been seen before or since.

The only other disease I`ve ever heard of that has such a mortality rate is curu - CJD.

[toomdevil]

@Grimreaperheadbangin Well I got a tetnis shot the other day so im Okay! XD

[Decemberlove61]

Thanks Daphne Shelldrick:-)

[daydream605]

lmao at 1st i thought he said rapist's i lol'ed =]!!

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

@daydream605

A rapist outbreak? LAMO

[reefshadow]

What do you mean, "you can't be certain" who came into contact with it??? Whoever got fucking bit, dumbass.

[docterboi777]

man imagine humans go raging like that....would be awesome...just like in the movies...i kno im acting stupid but come on it could happen sometime...

[Fred111000]

It's called zombie apocalypse.

[ShilgenVens]

Did the elephants separate themselves into the not bitten group and the bitten group or did the people do it?

[wken666wkd]

rofl yeah :P

[jeffry98]

what i want to know is how it makes animals go in to rage but not humans

[LuCiDoMeN]

because it messes with their balance, and judgement... and humans do go crazy.... but when they find out you have rabies they drug you up so bad you basically die in a comatose state if its too late to save you.

[morgandrim]

It does make humans go into a rage, jeffry98. Not always. Sometimes human beings with this disease suffer only "dumb" rabies. But they can often go through what is called "furious rabies," which is - naturally - the most frightening stage of the disease.

[suncoastta]

zoo notic rabies i had to kill a large coyote it came at me from 100 yds ,i shot it 9 times with a 22 mag i wish it could have been filmed it was dam sure mad it was hard to kill it fell 6 ft from me.

[r8wing]

A rabies outbreak could mean only one thing: too many animals on a given area. Diseases like rabies have a mechanism of spreading similar to explosions or nuclear chain reactions: if the density is high enough, it will propagate. The answer is only one: if it looks suspicious, kill the damn thing. And if they are too many, maybe mass killing methods should be considered.

[carcosa]

You wanna consider mass killing methods for rare animals on a rare animal preserve?

[r8wing]

Of course not elephants, they aren't the source of the disease. But smaller animals like suricates, bats or wild dogs are natural rabies reservoirs, and if they become too many, the virus takes up the task of regulating their numbers, unfortunately spreading to other species as well. Animal rabies outbreaks have a mechanism of spreading like that of wildfire, and the containment methods should be the similar.

[carcosa]

I see what you mean. Good luck with that though.

Rabies scares me more than most other things, it's up there with smallpox. I worry about a weaponized rabies attack.

BTW, the girl who was rescued from rabies by being put into a coma is on youtube, her name is like miraclegirl. She was evangelizing me for christ.

[r8wing]

Stop worrying so much:)), rabies would be a terrible choice for a weapon, as an infection can be achieved only by inoculation, and also the virus is difficult to breed in artificial conditions, because it only multiplies in living mammals. Biological weapons are not made with viruses but with bacteria such as anthrax or plague, as the Japanese tried with little success during WW2. And the weaponized germ should be able to spread rapidly through air or water, which isn't the case with rabies.

[carcosa]

Unfortunately I am more informed on the subject than you are, I wish you were right about that. First, rabies forms inclusion bricks (negri bodies) similar to the way that filoviridae do. Remember that marburg was initally called stretched rabies-- the viruses are very similar in some ways. That means that it's friendly to weaponization.

Second, how do you know what's going to happen if someone inhales numerous bricked rabies particles? My guess would be hemorrhagic rabies...

[r8wing]

Suppose you're right about that, but this doesn't solve the problem. A biological weapon is supposed to be able to start some kind of epidemic, not only infect the people directly exposed to it. Rabies doesn't spread easily from one human to another, by coughing or touch, and humans don't have a habit of biting each-other. As there is no recorded rabies epidemic in humans in known history, I guess no one would ever bother to try to make a weapon out of it.

[carcosa]

Google "ertl weaponized rabies."

Welcome to the rabbit hole, I'm still falling.

[goldenchocolate]

for now rabies isn't that bad, but if it evolves and becomes powerful enough so that it causes angry rage in humans (which would cause them be hyper aggressive) and is able to overcome the vaccin, then rabies could be one of the worst pandemics ever (cuz it takes a few months before symptoms start showing, so the infected to infect many people in that time)

[crayonfish]

Furious rabies does cause aggression in humans. The symptoms are pretty much the same in all mammals.

There hasn't been a human epidemic because the virus must cross over from wild to domestic animals, and then to humans. Not enough people are exposed to cause a big outbreak (and most are vaccinated anyway). When a person is symptomatic, usually they are quickly isolated.

There have been cases of airborne rabies, but it was only found in people who explored certain bat caves.

[gaarddarkwitch]

Actually in the past rabid people were put out immediatly due to the thought that they were possessed. On dark side, that killed many people, on the bright side, that may have avoided rabies from spreading far and wide among humans.

[crayonfish]

I've been reading 19th century medical journals for a project, perhaps in the distant past, but in the past two hundred years, victims were simply isolated and left to die. They still are to this day. You can find a lot of interesting articles and books dating as far back as the 18th century on Google books. Great stuff. Look it up under hydrophobia and you'll find the older documents.

[gaarddarkwitch]

Don't get me wrong or call me a weirdo but a rabies pandemy sounds like the "T virus" to me.. Except they are alive while biting

[wilkes420]

man you guys are stupid sketch bags....... Rabies can only be transfered via salvia and mucus. Rabies HAS to have a period of time in the body called the inoculation period where it then becomes active(2 weeks-2 months) And rabies is cureable before the symptoms start. You may be able to make rabbies an airborne virus, but there is NO way of making it effective weapon. It would never be as effective as actuall weapons like smallpox, anthrax or the soviet smallpox/ebola.... Learn before you speak

[wilkes420]

P.S. rabies does not have to cross from wild to domestic before you can be infected with the virus. Rabies can infect anyone by any animal who has it. Rabies can be spread to any warm blooded living being from another. In the late 19th century they devoloped the cure and imunization that they use to date. Rabies is not a dangerous disease, and it can be cured easily AS LONG AS YOU ACT RIGHT AFTER YOUR BITTEN. If you dont seek help after bitten your an idiot, since its free in most countries.

[r8wing]

Correction: only mammals can get rabies. Birds are warm blooded too but are not affected by the virus.

[hesitation24]

birds lay eggs, thus are not mammals, thus do not get rabies

[ariesmajor]

Rabies can infect birds, as long as the animal has a brain and warm blood it can live in it. Know your facts.

[kyle7566]

they can carry it, but cannot catch its illness.

[DrewLatta801]

while you are correct that birds are not mammals, there are mammals that lay eggs (monotremes), and animals that are not mammals which do not lay eggs.

[TourismPicks]

Platypus lay eggs and they are mammals thus you don't know what your'e talking about

[DrummerLordProdigy]

Yes, but it is a viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. In other words it is a mammal who can only catch this disease. But you said warm-blooded...

[zorkntatertotter2]

Chirist?

[2hot2b4got69]

I wonder what the outcome was hopefully they all survived!!

[mastersleigh]

So did they get rabies in the end or what?

[Scrap5000]

yeah, really, wtf was the outcome?????!!!!

[dixitwinleo]

that is terrible! but is was a good video

thx.