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What else are you going to do, though? It's essentially guaranteed death otherwise. There's like a dozen people who've ever survived rabies without the vaccine,
by meepmorp 5y ago
What else are you going to do, though? It's essentially guaranteed death otherwise. There's like a dozen people who've ever survived rabies without the vaccine, and they're all at varying degrees of impairment.
- baybal2 5y agoI remember the cost of emergency medicine in China: Even very substantial surgeries are rather cheap, but the trivial appendicitis will cost you $10k-$20k, and they will bill you extra if they believe it is about to burst, and you are untranslortable.
- gcheong 5y agoI suppose you could try to get “professionally immunized” each year and get paid for your antibodies and be protected from rabies.
- hackeraccount 5y agoThat's weird. I got bit by a dog 5 years or so ago. It was such a light bite that I initially didn't even realize it had broken the skin - when I realized what had happened and went back to talk (realistically maybe strongly talk because the guys dog bit me with no provocation that I was aware of and zero warning. Animal didn't even bark - it was straight to lunge. And the guy was parked right in front of grocery store. ... but I digress) Anyhow the guy and his dog had vanished. I waited a day or so and then went to the Dr. and the ended up getting the rabies vaccine which was annoying because it's 3 ... or maybe it was 4? shots over a couple of weeks. It didn't cost a lot though. I guess insurance covered it but it's not like I've got wonder insurance. Who knows though maybe it is incredibly expensive.