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The modern vaccine isn’t that bad. I went through it in 2012 after a bat weirdly decided to mess with my scalp at an outdoor concert. Treatment was a series of
by wwweston 2y ago
The modern vaccine isn’t that bad. I went through it in 2012 after a bat weirdly decided to mess with my scalp at an outdoor concert. Treatment was a series of four shots (in the arm, not the stomach) over a few weeks of drop in visits to an LA hospital. NBD, way better than worrying about impending death.
The bigger deal can be finding who has the vaccine and is prepared to administer it.
- jeff_vader 2y agoMy father got it after an injured looking/unusually behaving cat scratched him up. Cat ran away - so it was impossible to test for rabies. 4 shoulder injections - no drama, no noticeable side effects other than maybe sore shoulder.
- more_corn 2y agoTest for rabies can only be done by dissecting the brain by the way.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoFalse, but it's the cheap way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Diagnosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Diagnosis
- benlivengood 2y ago"The diagnosis can also be made from saliva, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid samples, but this is not as sensitive or reliable as brain samples."
- alexey-salmin 2y agoI remember reading that these tests only worked like 40% of the time in cases that later proved to be positive posthumously. Tests for viruses usually either measure the immune response (which rabies doesn't trigger) or try to catch the virus RNA/DNA in a sample, but that requires the virus to be present in that specific sample. Rabies is extremely stealthy, it's not necessarily present in either urine or saliva, so these tests effectively are either "positive" or "unknown". Even if you take sample of nerve tissue you may not hit the infected piece because it spreads very slowly and non-uniformly.