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An 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.
by cjensen 5y ago
An 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.