Rabies - on the rise in the U.S.

The FATAL Rabies virus is on the rise in the United States in our wildlife, which is impacting our families and our pets. It can be found in every state. Worldwide, it kills over 55,000 people each year, mostly children. it is present on 5 of the 7 continents excluding Australia and Antarctica. Rabies is preventable - respect wild animals and stay away from them.

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[johnvitowilson]

should start making an airborne rabies virus

[rabiesaware]

@johnvitowilson Why?

[1958boomergirl]

I've never been bitten, thankfully, but I still want to know. Are rabies shots still given around the belly button area once a day for about 14 days, or are they now administered in the shoulder area once a week for about 5 or 6 weeks straight?

[rabiesaware]

@1958boomergirl Well, it depends where you live. In Boston, I went through the series of shots. I got two shots in my butt and then one in each arm. Then a week and some days later I got another two shots in each arm. This went on for about 5 rounds of shots. Wasn't bad at all.

[JoeFGale]

Zombie timee

[rabiesaware]

@JoeFGale No, not zombie timee - this is rabies. Rabies is real - it can be found all over the world. And, once the symptoms appear, it's always nearly fatal. There is one girl, Jeanna Giese, who survived.

[eyestoC]

@christinab624 Maybe it is time for a CEU class, I am surprised that you do not know the difference

between the redundant vaccine costs mandated from upon high to the pet owning public and the PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) treatments to which you referred. (PEP costs about $1800-3000 per treatment which is a nice markup for $3 worth of chemicals, gotta love big-pharma) All the vaccines in all the cats and dogs will not stop one bat (primary vector) from contracting rabies.

[christinab624]

and you have no idea how horrible it is to have to tell a person bitten by a wild animal "well we're going to get you the vaccine as soon as possiblebut there's a shortage." (which also had to do with uncontrollable circumstances at the manufacturer but still)

[christinab624]

@eyestoC You do realize that one billion dollars is the reason there are so few deaths. Without the vaccine rabies is 99.99% fatal. That one billion dollars (which is not the amount I have no idea how you came up with that. Because morbidity and mortality weekly (CDC) just did an article about over 700 people and over 500 animals receiving the vaccine after an exposure event totaling about $600,000) is still not enough to fulfill the need for the vaccine. I am an infectious disease specialist

[JeannaGieseRabies01]

@piefrance Obviously. Sorry I thought that was implied.

[juliewashere88]

@piefrance Weird how that is. I almost feel like I would have been better off going to a vet after being bit.

Seriously, I went to several different clinics after the ER turned me away. No one seemed to know how to deal with a rabies shot.

[piefrance]

@juliewashere88 That's the difference between doctors in human medicine and veterinary medicine. Veterinarians known the serious public health implications of rabies, whereas many doctors, especially in the ER, have no idea what constitutes post-exposure prophylaxis in humans.