Just a thread like that, why is it one of the more hated fear, along with brain eating amoeba and ALS/MS?? People absolutely hate talking about these 3-4 culprits.
Just a thread like that, why is it one of the more hated fear, along with brain eating amoeba and ALS/MS?? People absolutely hate talking about these 3-4 culprits.
It never used to be on here until recently and then we got flooded with rabies posts for no reason.
Nicola
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Where did someone die of rabies ?
Nicola
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Did a Google. Little boy from Florida in Jan of 2018. Father found a sick bat, put it in a bucket to dispose of it and the kid touched it after being told not to.
It's important to note that rabies cases in the United States are extremely rare. Only twenty-eight cases of human rabies have been diagnosed in the United States since 2006, of which 8 cases were infected outside the United States and its territories. Do the math You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning or a car or winning the lottery for that matter.
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And to point out for ninja bats - the bat was sick, couldn't fly and the child stuck its hand in the bucket so it got bitten (scratched according to news but you can't know)
It was an obviously rabid sick bat.
This story is terrible and I cried when I read it the other day (I am in a rabies fear phase rn)
I have bats flying round my back garden - they swoop really close then fly away when they realise you are not food.
Love to see them but never have I ever once thought I was attacked and bitten and given rabies from them.
Nicola
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The fear of being bitten by a rabid bat seems to be an American fear rather than a UK / European fear, and it appeared on this forum after the members of Anxiety Zone...which had mostly American members...shut down and the majority moved over to NMP.
But apparently in some parts of the US there's still a risk, if that's correct? Hence the fear I guess.
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I'm the same Nic. I've said this before... When I was a kid, my friend and I used to take a pair of nylons (Moms weren't pleased), put a rock in the toe and throw it in the air when the bats started flying. A bat would go for it, get it's claws hung up in the stockings and the weight of the rock would bring them down. We'd catch them, handle them etc. I'm still here
Like they say, a rabid animal is obviously sick.
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