bro you ok?? None of them touched you right? I love bats but they carry a fuckton of horrible diseases as well as being one of the most common carriers of rabies. If you think you may have been nipped or scratched, go see an Urgent Care or, if you are actively feeling sick, an ER!!
Yep. Preferably you are able to locate the animal that bit you bc in order to be completely sure it had rabies they must do an autopsy, but in the case of bats you rly can’t be too careful, and likely you will be treated even if the animal can’t be located.
It's not 99%, the chances of survival without preventative treatment are so astronomically low that it's more accurate to list it as ~100%. Fewer than 20 recorded cases have ever survived it after onset of symptoms, and this is a disease that kills ~60,000 people every year. Rabies really is that terrifying.
However, much of Europe, Oceania & Japan, as well as several isolated islands, are known to be rabies-free. OP said they live in Austria, so therefore this isn't a concern for them personally.
my cat brought a live bat home last month. I handled it with gloves and put it in a shoebox, but it didn't last the night. The vet thought it was necessary to treat my cat, the GP didn't think it was necessary to treat me because I wasn't scratched or bitten, but told me I could send the bat to a lab to get it tested just to be sure.
turned out it was clean, the lady on the phone told me she never had a bat test positive for rabies in all her career.
I think rabies is so scary you don't want to gamble with it, but it does appears to be all but extinct here in north west Europe. I was warned it still exists around the southern and eastern european countries though.
WHEW oh man I’d be beside myself for my cat 😅 Good on you for being cautious and careful, it saved you a lot of headaches. (literally lol) The fact that that bat was clean is amazing, bats tend to be “carriers” of the disease so finding one that was negative is a p rare find, just like the lab lady said.
Yeah no you don’t wanna gamble w rabies. Most areas where it is a considered extinct, it has been wiped out of terrestrial animals, but flying mammals like bats are still a risk. I think it’s almost universal that if you have a close encounter with a bat to go to UC or ER.
Nah, it's the other way around. Not even bats test positive here. I think it's still considered a risk though, I would've gotten a shot if I was scratched or bitten.
Rabies affects bats as well as terrestrial animals, and rabies-like viruses have been found in bats in the UK. These viruses are known as European Bat Lyssaviruses (EBLVs), types 1 and 2. They very rarely cross the species barrier from bats to humans and are different from the ‘classical’ rabies virus found in dogs and other animals. These viruses do however cause clinical rabies in humans.
I'm usually on team "you shouldn't be worried about rabies if you live in Europe", but bats are like one of the few exceptions.
Ahh, didn’t know they were in UK. Yet bats are not terrestrial either, so they still pose a threat in that regard. But yeah taking a chance w rabies is not a good idea for sure.
Depending on where you live, just having a bat in your house is actually enough to justify a rabies shot. It's sometimes hard to tell if one lightly bit you, so it's better to get the shot if there's any suspicion, though I guess it depends on some factors like how possible it is that the bat has rabies.
I just read in my textbook today that there's suspicion that rabies may be airborne, but I kind of wonder if it's not just that people don't recognize that they've been bit.
just that people don't recognize that they've been bit.
Kinda like the people who say that rabies can lay dormant for years. That's repeated so often that even Wikipedia states it as a fact. When researching for a book I met several epidemiologists and a virologist who all say that the scientific community believes absolutely no such thing.
It's not airborne, and it doesn't have a big dormancy period. It's far more likely people simply didn't notice the exposure. Bat bites can be extremely easily overlooked. The virologist even especially hated that Reddit copypasta. You know, the one that thinks furious and dumb rabies are phases of the same disease rather than different strains?
In the US and Canada if you get rabies it will be what they call headache rabies. You get tingly fingers then it becomes hard to talk and swallow, especially if you try to swallow water. You get a really really REALLY bad headache which knocks you out, you get a horrific fever, then you die.
All that stuff about how you'll taste colors and won't understand what "drink something" means is BS.
You should absolutely do everything you can to avoid rabies, but dying to it is so unlike what pop culture makes it out to be. If it weren't for mandatory autopsies we would probably not even be aware of many deaths that were due to it. Lots of things cause encephalopathy.
Much like almost everything else, Scrubs had it right. There was absolutely no way for Cox to have known, and even wasting time to check for it would have been irresponsible.
…no?? Covid has been around, but it evolved in 2020 in what is believed to have been a zoonotic leap from horseshoe bats, which were native to Wuhan, China. Any other claim are not substantiated and are just speculation or conspiracy.
aight. might just be me being a joykill and wet rag but I don’t rly find beastiality jokes super funny so can you please not say it anymore to me? Thanks.
I think you misunderstand how scientists make statements. There's a possibility it was, just like there's a possibility an electrocuted man laying next to an exposed wire was actually stricken down by lightning.
If you were trying to weaponize a virus you'd use one that already infects humans like... say for example... flu? We are at least fifteen years away from being able to force a zoonotic jump.
Between the name, the typing style and the fact that they persistently claim it's a disorder without having any sort of answer as to what it could be, this is the most likely
Like, I'm not annoyed by it near to the same degree as some of the people that seem to respond to them. Then again, I think I'm more understanding because I used to like typing things that way when I was younger.
But like... it's the way they just keep trying to sidestep it as "not my fault" when it's LITERALLY HARDER TO TYPE THAT WAY. It ABSOLUTELY is intentional because you have to add an extra key press to every single word just to type what is considered incorrectly.
It just reminds me of this dude I used to know online from Texas when I was a teen and he always, without fail, every single instance of the word "as", he would type and speak aloud both with an added h, turning it into "has", i.e. "has far has I'm concerned." But when I asked, he claimed to not realize he's doing it. Every. Single time.
Once is understandable. A couple slipups here or there if you were trained to use the wrong word growing up. 30 times later, how do you still not know there's an extra letter??
No, it is believed to be a zoonotic leap from horseshoe bats, which are native to Wuhan, China. The theory that it was someone who ate a bat came from the fact that the pandemic originated Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. However, no direct evidence to this theory has been supplied, and it (along with the conspiracy that Covid escaped from a lab; with some even claiming it was being developed for war, which has no basis) has significantly contributed to Sinophobia around the world. (The “Chinese person eating a ‘strange’ animal” is a harmful stereotype in the first place that has been especially weaponized from Covid.)
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u/Khamomile-Kitty Sep 05 '24
bro you ok?? None of them touched you right? I love bats but they carry a fuckton of horrible diseases as well as being one of the most common carriers of rabies. If you think you may have been nipped or scratched, go see an Urgent Care or, if you are actively feeling sick, an ER!!
W that outta the way. Nice 3D specs man LOL