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
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).