Just saw a video about rabies having 100% kill rate, peaked my interest.
Why is rabies such a horrible thing and what does it actually do to be able to kill you without an actual cure etc?
EDIT: I didn’t expect so many responses to this, thank you to everyone who answered!
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I got bit by a stray cat last year. I’d never seen the cat before and she was in bad shape. I was trying to get fluids into her when she convulsed and her teeth clamped down on my finger to the bone. Hurt like hell! The cat dies a few hours later.
When I went to the doctor the next day and told him the story, he immediately wanted to start rabies shots. He explained that, by the time rabies symptoms show up it’s too late to do anything to stop it and it’s 100% fatal. So, of course, I started the treatment!
My husband, who had fortunately thought to bag the cat and stick it in the extra fridge, had to take the dead cat to our vet, where they apparently cut off her head and sent it to the local health department for testing. A grisly business, for sure!
It took a few days to get the results back from the health department. The cat did not have rabies. I had already had the second shot by then and didn’t have to finish the series, thank goodness!
But if we had waited until we got the results back and the cat had tested positive, too much time would have elapsed and I would be dead now.
Rabies is nothing to fool around with. Like I said, once you start having symptoms, it’s already too late.
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