Rabies fear: How to deal with it?

[tryingtosurvive1]

I promise you don't have "R"

[JoeCanuck]

Go get a rabies vaccine. it's good for 10 years.

[NervUs]

I am bracing for the day that I come down with a bad cold. I had a bad R word panic last week after getting licked on the lips by a dog...and I'm doing okay but know that first sickness is not going to be fun!!!

[paranoid-viking]

Basically, Sunday evening I developed a sore throat and have been having cold symptoms since then...Of course, when you have a fear of rabies like I do...It can't "just be a seasonal cold". It's the beginning flu like symptoms of rabies and I'm gonna die soon....I'm so sick of this shit.... :(

You think you have rabies? Why? Have you been bitten by a dog or a bat in a third world country?

[maz063]

SAME. Had 2 pin pricks on my knee a littleness over a month ago and when I started worrying about it and thinking about the marks I kept rubbing it and checking and now it feel s like I have a slight twinge or tingle in my knee. But if I a man busy or distracted I don't feel it. I feel it right now as we speak. This has been going on for 3 days so one would assume I would be progressing worse and worse with more symptoms.

[NervousSubject]

Apparently today in Florida, a kid died of rabies due to a bat bite...I managed to kind of forget about my fears for a while and now this is bringing all of them back...I'm so worried one is in my house right now....I know it's very cold where I live but I cant help thinking that one might be in my house right now....

[Fishmanpa]

Yeah.. great! Media hysteria alert! Here come the rabies threads!

Positive thoughts

[axolotl]

Deep breath...

So one among your 350 million countryfolk has died of something you fear.

It's triggering, but it changes nothing.

[Fishmanpa]

Deep breath...

So one among your 350 million countryfolk has died of something you fear.

It's triggering, but it changes nothing.

I read the story... the dad found a sick bat, put it in a bucket to get rid of it, told the kid to stay away. He didn't. Terribly sad story but a more than a million+ to one chance.

RIP little guy....

Positive thoughts

[NervousSubject]

The scariest part is....I don't think there is a way to prove that there isn't a bat in my house right now.