Marked by altered behavioral patterns. “Docility” and “likes to be pet” are very common in the prodromal stage. Infection with the rabies virus progresses through three distinct stages. And probably go through all that shit I’ve been through (also if you are immunosupressed? I DON’T KNOW WHAT’D HAPPEN) If you are scratched or bitten by an animal you’re not positive is vaccinated, you need to find treatment NOW. Is this your reality? If not, ONE MORE REASON TO NOT FUCKING PLAY WITH THIS SHIT. I must add that I live in a country with universal healthcare, so I didn’t pay a single penny for my treatment.

Or just, like, DON’T - call a vet or an authority that can handle them safely. If you like messing with stray/wild animals, don’t go picking them up and be extra careful. Rabies is a rare condition all over, THANK GOD, and 1 confirmed case can be already considered a surge and a reason for mass campaigning, AND FOR A REASON. Because that’s how fucking strong the vaccine is, BECAUSE THAT’S HOW VICIOUS THE VIRUS IS. Every time I took a shot, my arm would swell and hurt like it’d been hit, and when night came I’d have a fever. I had to take four reinforcement shots in the next month, one a week, so I could be positively be considered immunized. I also had a fever (not feverish, a fever) My legs, butt, and left arm hurt all over, like I had been punched there, for a few days. I slept through the two hours and then was liberated to go home. “No, we have to keep you under observation for 2h so we’re SURE the vaccine won’t give you any reaction.”īINCH I WAS GIVEN A BUTTLOAD OF MEDICINE BUT THERE WAS STILL A RISK. They all stung like a bitch and I usually don’t care about shots. So after I had taken the antiallegic and was starting to feel drowsy (as a side effect of it) the doctor came with the 5 shots. Truth be told I was an adult already and I’m tall so I have a lot of mass but STILL.

It was OBVIOUSLY dripped in my body and not injected because HAHAHAHA. I needed to take an antiallergic shot. “Why?” “Because the virus is devastating, and as the vaccine is made from it, but weakened (like almost every vaccine) it will still create a reaction, and it’s a strong one, and it’s veru common for people to have strong allergic reactions to it.” YOU HAVE TO TAKE AN ANTIALLERGIC SHOT IN ORDER TO TAKE THE VACCINE COZ THE VACCINE COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE YOU REALLY SICKĪLSO IT WASN’T JUST “A LITTLE ANTIALLERGIC SHOT” Then they said that, okay, but there was a catch first. Please stop for a moment and think that the disease is so worrysome that they’d rather needle me all over than to give me one shot and wait until it spread through my system. They told me they’d divide the shot in 5 small ones, and inject me all over my body, so the antidote would get to my entire system fast. But it was also a small area, so the usual thing they do - inject the vaccine in the place - wasn’t a choice. It drew blood, there are many wild animals in the area (tamarins, possums, bats, foxes) and it isn’t that uncommon to hear about 1 or 2 rabies cases every now and again (a puppy we gave to a friend got it, for instance), so I went to an ambulatory immediately.īecause I was bitten in an ultrasensitive area, I needed fast treatment. I got bitten by a wild tamarin once, on the pulp of my index finger. I’ll explain why from my own experience (I’m not a doctor).

Like, a real miracle, you should enter some religion if you escape that.ĪLSO, I don’t want people feeling confident about petting stray/wild animals because there’s a vaccine available, either. If you get heavy treatment after developping symptoms, you still need a miracle. What people need to hear is: if you get to develop rabies symptoms, you’re dead. You’re being kind when you say “almost 100% fatality”.

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