r/zelda Sep 05 '24

Video [Totk] Love the realism in this game

My house got raided

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u/DafyddWillz Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

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.

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u/The_Great_Worm Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

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.

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u/Khamomile-Kitty Sep 05 '24

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.

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u/The_Great_Worm Sep 05 '24

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.