I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.
I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years…
Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It’s been a bit of a weird year, and there’s been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.
Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
Wait, so should one not been feeding dogs Tylenol this whole time, trying to make super dogs? Asking for a friend…
The brainworm won. And while Im not a fan of eugenics… I think america needs to do the rest of the world a solid and sterilize that 37% to protect the human race.
Hope you’re all ready. This ship is not going to correct course when the orange traitor dies.
Our problems go WAY deeper than that.
Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.
Just because I’ve had so many people tell me “I didn’t need so many meds/a walker/ oxygen up my nose until I came to the hospital”, I want to point out that the diagnosis itself is not the death sentence. As the organ donor showed, even if no one knows you have rabies, rabies will kill you dead.
Solve it with enforcement. If they have to come out over a dog issue and the fucking thing don’t have a rabies vaccination, it gets put down. No exceptions. The dog doesn’t have any religious affiliation so that argument won’t work either.
That’s generally how it works if your dog or cat (or squirrel) bites someone. Unless you can provide proof of a current vaccination, the animal has to get tested for rabies. This involves getting a sample of brain tissue. For pet owners that seems excessive, but for someone who has seen a rabies infection first-hand, there is no animal valuable enough to skip that test
Can we call it now? The usa is not a real nation that should be taken seriously.
We crossed that line well over a decade ago.
I guess this is one more reason to never travel to the states, I worry Canada and Mexico will see more rabid animals though.
And now I think I will get a rabies booster (I hope that is still a thing).
vaccinate your dog, everyone
Do these people understand that rabies is 100% fatal?
erm akchually 99.9999% fatal
Jeanna Giese survived without the vaccine due to an experimental treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#After_onset
Note that that treatment has failed at all other times than this one
There’s actually been around 20 known rabies survivors. It’s a lot more survivable than you think! Of course 20×1 is still only 20, so I’ll still avoid petting any raccoons
Even that case is highly contested as to what happened. It’s often debated that she might not have had rabies to begin with.
So It’s probably safe to say that even in that case there might not have been a correlation?
Yes.
This is so stupid that it makes me think maybe the “great filter” (the reason we don’t see space-faring civilizations everywhere) is actually that life forms who evolved by fighting for survival and going through natural selection cannot psychologically handle a post-scarcity society. It’s like when the threats disappear everybody forgets they exist even if they are well documented historically.
Related: if you don’t know about how horrifying a disease is, go search for some articles and copypasta about it. Congrats on being one of today’s (un)lucky 10,000!
Rabies seems kinda tame compared to everything else we’re being swamped with. We probably ALL missed hearing about it.
Rabies is not tame. If you get the vaccine for it, you’re golden (near perfect efficacy, and you can even get it shortly after contracting rabies because rabies works so slowly).
But as soon as you start showing symptoms, you’re dead. Rabies is able to cross the blood brain barrier, but the vaccine for it is not. Once you’re showing symptoms, the death rate is 100% (60k die from rabies annually, less than 50 have ever survived after showing symptoms).
Yes, but I was being a bit glib, in the context of American national insanity. There is so much else evil crap going on, which is equally fatal to rabies…caribbean boat bombings, withdrawal of food aid from starving people, ICE kidnappings to foreign violent prisons, even the “advice” your own CDC is giving now. Rabies seems fun and light…
I figured, but I wanted to make sure anybody who was unfamiliar with how dangerous rabies is didn’t come away with the wrong idea.
Good call. I apologize if it seems I trivialized it. The fact that we so many have more things to worry about as time goes on, is a shitty reflection of our governments failing us.
99.99% There was that 1 girl that somehow managed to survive thanks to a 2 month induced coma.
The Milwaukee Protocol is not effective.
The death rate rounds to 100%, not 99.99%, and it’s not even remotely close (as noted in the parentheses of my original comment).
Our dog is absolutely autistic, and we could care less. His allergies on the other hand are a PITA.
Why do you think it’s autism? One of my cats is mentally “special” as the vet told me after asking some questions. She couldn’t get any more specific. He’s a great cat and very happy.
I’m half joking, but there’s a decent bit of autism in our house, and he fits in pretty well. He gets overstimulated pretty easy, exhibits a lot of self-soothing behavior, and doesn’t take cues well at all.
Got that dog in me
Today I learned that 37% of Americans are barely functional morons.
54% of us read at a 6th grade level. You do not hate your neighbors to the south nearly enough
Compare this percentage with how many are MAGA and you start to see a distinct pattern.
“There was supposed to be a Venn diagram but all I see is one circle”
how esle do you explain Pedonald voted in twice?
It’s probably more like 37% of dog owners.
and at least 68% of Americans are cognitively impaired.
Is that before or after covid?
that tracks with election results and presidential approval ratings
Low ball estimate for sure
Autistic dogs? You mean they will be more obsessed with catching that squirrel than normal?
No but they will have an entirely squirrel themed Magic deck.
Whoa! I was gonna ask which dogs would be more likely to have autism if that were possible. Instead, after some quick research it turns out there is a controversial and debated analog to autism in dogs termed CDB (canine dysfunctional behavior) that can include symptoms such as repetitive/compulsive behaviors, social challenges, heightened sensory sensitivities, and difficulty with changes in routine.
Bull terriers apparently are the breed which exhibit the most CDB-like symptoms. However, the breeds that are recommended to match with autistic humans are ones that are more predictable, gentle, calm, and friendly (e.g. labs, Golden’s, etc).
So we (autistics) are just considered stupid. Great.
Controversial and debated; IE, some duechebag propositioned this whole concept, and since he’s rich and white and old, it’s gotten a bit of traction, and he absolutely does think autistic folks are stupid, But! The vast majority of anyone in the field with two functioning brain cells to rub together know he’s full of shit and are working on refuting him, because the aforementioned class he’s in means he didn’t get immediately laughed out of the room or simply blatantly ignored like he should’ve been.
Like any of the abysmal drivel that falls out of jordan peterson’s mouth
That is not at all entailed by my comment.
