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The patient was in their 80s. I can give a pass for "dont give a fuck" at that point
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
The patient was in their 80s. I can give a pass for "dont give a fuck" at that point
- tomjen3 5y agoSure, but dying from rabies is not fun.
- refurb 5y agoPresumably you won’t be aware of any of it. Any decent hospital will sedate a rabies patient with enough drugs won’t even know where you are. See Milwaukee protocol. It did failed to improve outcomes after subsequent testing but they basically put you in a coma which I assume they still do out of compassionate reasons.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoAfaik it only worked once by pure luck.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThere are lots of ways to die in your 80s. Pretty sure "rabies" is not high on my list.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoAre you 80? Clearly you don't have a very strong "dont give a fuck" sense
- Ensorceled 5y agoMy grandfather starved himself to death in his 90s when gangrene started to take his feet. Pretty sure I know what "don't give a fuck" looks like, and rabies is NOT it.
- droopyEyelids 5y agoAdditionally: Rabies treatment doesn't guarantee survival, it's really a crap shoot Rabies treatment can cost $22k out-of-pocket [1] [1] https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180220/the-high-cost-of-surviving-rabies https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180220/the-high-c... In a very USA way, this guy might have been forced to choose between death-by-rabies and leaving something for his descendants.
- buescher 5y agoIf you're 80 in the USA, you're on Medicare. In the article you link, a Medicare patient paid $186 for treatment.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoI understand that rabies treatment promptly after the bite ( "post-exposure prophylaxis" ) has a very good track record. (1) But if you leave it until symptoms start, it's pretty much a death sentence. A terrible, agonising death, too. (2) There are also vaccines, that can be taken pre-exposure. What I did not know is that they date back to 1885 (3) 1: > Existing vaccine regimens for rabies PEP are close to 100% effective and WHO-prequalified vaccines are highly effective. The expected number of rabies deaths in patients receiving PEP after a confirmed rabies exposure is fortunately extremely low. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X18315421 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X1... 2: > As of 2016, only fourteen people had survived a rabies infection after showing symptoms. Rabies causes about 56,000 deaths worldwide per year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine
- Finnucane 5y agoThat's why capturing the animal and prompt testing is important. If you get treated/shots right away, your prognosis is good. If you wait until the disease starts to affect you, your chances go way down.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
- DantesKite 5y agoDying by rabies is very unpleasant. There’s a couple videos on YouTube detailing the process. It’s like advanced Alzheimer’s, delirium, and water starvation in one disease, mixed with unbelievable pain.
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- croes 5y agoHere is a video of the US Army Medical Service that shows dying of rabies. https://youtu.be/OOu2JjQmS6Y https://youtu.be/OOu2JjQmS6Y Even if you don't give a fuck, you wouldn't choose this way to die.
- da_big_ghey 5y agodamn, 138k views with out one comment
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- cjensen 5y agoAn 80 year old male in the US has a life expectancy of 8.4 years[1]. That's a lot of time to bet, especially since "aggressive bat" is almost certainly rabid. [1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/population/longevity.html
- inglor_cz 5y agoOn average, yes. That particular person might be a terminal cancer patient, though.
- convnet 5y agoRabies has to be one of the absolute worst ways to die.
- inglor_cz 5y agoNowadays, they will put you into artificial coma and then you die. Not nice, but not really worse than many other modes of death - at least superficially. We do not know what happens in the sedated brains of the patients in their last days.
- jliptzin 5y agoI thought bats are just rabies carriers and don’t exhibit any symptoms of the disease?
- cjensen 5y agoA rabid bat might not be showing any symptoms, so you have to assume all bats might have rabies. That's why health authorities tend to say "just looking at a bat, you can't tell if it has rabies." That said, daytime flying, obvious sickness, and aggression/biting are all symptoms of likely rabies in bats.
- pirate787 5y agoNo, it is irresponsible and selfish. An infected person can also give rabies to other people -- no doubt his caregivers are getting preventative shots.
- wwtrv 5y agoThere are no confirmed cases of human to human transmission…
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