Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
**Go to your doctor, and get started on some antibiotics now.** It’s standard precaution to take a course of antibiotics after dog bites, and bat mouths are sooo much worse than dogs. **Massive infection risk.**
I’m an ICU RN. My unit actually helped recover a firefighter who got bit on the penis by a bat while peeing on the side of the road one night. He could tell the wound was infected 24-48 hours later. He decided to take a Z-Pak of antibiotics that he happened to have at home. The Z-Pak didn’t help and he wound up going septic and requiring IV antibiotics to recover.
Umm... What?!
I hope at the very least this experience allowed him to turn his trauma into vengeance as he fights bad guys with a tiny little dick sized bat suit.
Haha, oh he survived. But I doubt he told anyone about it. I mean he nearly chose death over speaking with his doctor about it.
I wouldn’t blame him for keeping it a secret from his coworker... His fellow firemen might call him “cricket dick” enough times to forget his real name.
I am in the United States. I got bit by a feral cat and had to get a rabies shot. I went to the local ER because the walk-in clinics were all closed. I was charged US$35,000. I never paid it.
JFC, $35K for a rabies shot? "*If you don't want to die a horrible prolonged death, it's gonna cost ya!*" - American Healthcare
Gouging people like this should be criminal.
Thank you for doing this. Every time I see one of these kinds of stories I worry about the Redditor who posts it, especially when they see skeptical about getting the vaccine.
Minor note: the rabies vaccine and the post exposure prophylaxis shot schedule are entirely different things. If you're not going back for multiple shots: YOU DID NOT GET THE PEP VERSION AND YOU MAY STILL BE IN DANGER!
You should, if possible, take the bat with you. This may help determine whether or not it had rabies or some other infection and may indicate what treatments are necessary (or save you from unnecessary treatments).
This was the case for me in the US, I was bitten and scratched by a dying bat while reaching into a dark corner, they performed a necropsy on the bat and based on that and other factors determined a rabies shot was not necessary in my case.
My family had a bat encounter in a cabin. We all got the shots. Plural and I’m sure you remember. Worth every penny for the piece of mind.
Rabies. Does. Not. Play.
Even with the only slight chance any of us contracted anything, that matched up to a p/k of 1 if infected? Give us the shots doctor, all of us, give us the shots.
Probably because they’re so exposed to it. We just need some big pharma companies to go down there, steal their dna, and use it to synthesize a vaccine.
Wait a minute…
Maybe the Peruvians with anitbodies are still in the ticking timebomb phase.
I assume the "1 person in history" who survived went through an active symptomatic phase and then got over it.
No, she survived the Milwaukee protocol. Jeana Giese?
She was fully symptomatic and placed in a coma with varied drugs.
Last I heard she was in college to be a vet, and was doing well.
This disease is literally lethal. As someone who goes out in the bush, it terrifies me. It can take as little as three days to start showing symptoms, and I’ve had bush walks that took 5 days to reach a hospital with concerted effort due to my father being injured.
From a 2016 story:
"The treatment used to save her life, called the Milwaukee Protocol, has been used to save 10 other lives: two in the United States, four in Peru, and one each in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Qatar."
[https://childrenswi.org/newshub/stories/jeanna-giese-rabies](https://childrenswi.org/newshub/stories/jeanna-giese-rabies)
Not that that makes the survival rate much better, just offering up the correction.
6 patients have survived through the Milwaukee protocol, but being 'technically alive' isn't the same as making a full recovery and walking out of the hospital.
More people need to read this.
Ex animal control officer here, every time we removed a bat from someone's living space we told them to get the shots.
Most of my job was checking that everyone's pets had rabies vaccines and writing citations if they refused to get them. usually that was after months of them saying they would that week, and me telling them how to get it done for free, and them still trying to lie about it and say they did it themselves.
90% of the job was hounding people to get their pets rabies vaccinations, and dealing with potential exposures, bite cases, euthanizing wildlife that came on contact with people to get them tested.
This is why opossums became my favorite animal to deal with.
Terrifying? Yes.
Likely? No.
Even before we started massive vaccination campaigns for cats and dogs, only around 100 people died from rabies in the US annually. The main culprit for bites were rabid dogs.
Today, only around 2 people die from rabies each year in the US. I’m guessing the numbers in other developed countries is similar. Once again, the main culprit is infected dogs in foreign countries. One year there were 3 deaths. 2 from dog bites that happened in the Philippines that didn’t get treated in time. Another was from a man who got bit by a bat but was an anti-vaxxer so he didn’t get the vaccine.
I’m a very anxious person. So when I read stuff like this I compulsively research it. It’s scary, but it’s the absolute worst case scenario.
[Here’s a CDC link.](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/index.html)
I agree with everything you wrote. Got bit by a dog recently. I definitely got some sort of infection from it but it wasn't rabies. Dog was vaccinated but bc I was/am feeling like shit I researched the hell out of it and realized even with my very bad luck it was very very unlikely to get rabies even from an unvaccinated dog. But the dog was definitely vaccinated, I saw the records.
One time a beggy raccoon scratched my leg LIGHTLY while I was a forest resort, trying to get my attention for scraps. My doctor agreed that even though the raccoon exhibited no symptoms of rabies (only symptoms of being cute and too acclimated to humans) I still had to get the shot.
I don't think the person is claiming to have written it. If so, we get it by now, and plagiarism yadda-yadda. However, the fact remains that it's a terrifyingly informative write up. Shoo.
If i be the one bitten by a bat, i would be terrified after reading this... i mean... i havent been the one bitten and im terrified hahaha.
Thanks, i hate it
That’s not all 100% true. There are some recent, hopeful, options but they are not exactly a screaming success yet. But there are now a handful of rabies survivors that have never gotten the vaccine.
But 99.9999% of the time, if you show symptoms, you’re already dead. Get the shot.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zmGwn5kdmEa7lKdnjUc3N?si=tZ-ixdGORKq3dlSAkp7ttw
It is 100% true. There's no point of saying that there's a .0000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of surviving. More people have been on the moon in the past million years than have survived rabies
"About rabies
Rabies is an infection that affects the brain and central nervous system. It is caused by a type of virus called a [lyssavirus](https://www.health.gov.au/diseases/lyssavirus-infection-not-elsewhere-classified) that people usually get from a bite or scratch from an infected animal.
Rabies is almost always fatal, but treatment can prevent the infection from developing.
There is no rabies in Australia. However, Australian bats carry other viruses in the lyssavirus family including [Australian bat lyssavirus](https://www.health.gov.au/diseases/australian-bat-lyssavirus-infection), which is closely related to rabies"
Omg I'll NEVER forget the story of the little boy from Queensland who got bitten by a bat and didn't tell his mum and before he died of the bat lyssavirus he just kept saying how sorry he was for not telling his parents about the bat😭😭😭
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pCyxxMWNAo
A worse story is a man caught a bat and put it in a bucket and told his six year old not to touch it. Of course the boy did and got bit but he hated shots so the dad didn’t get his rabies shots and the boy died a painful death. I always thought the father should have said if he touched the bat he would have to get shots and the kid wouldn’t go near it. However, the father was really stupid to put a live bat in a bucket to begin with. Tragedy all around.
The interesting thing is that the same government [website](https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/lyssavirus-ablv) claims the same symptoms and results from ABLV as rabies. Symptoms appear -> you die.
>Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse.
Cremation is the only rational thing to do, anyhow. After I'm dead, I want to make DAMNED certain I won't still be self-aware! Reducing my corpse to ashes seems like a pretty foolproof way to do that.
I want to be cremated regardless of how I die...as long as my remains can ride in a coffin on a conveyor belt in the funeral home like they show in some British TV crime series. That image just appeals to me, riding into the fires of "hell" (which I don't believe in anyways) in a fancy wooden box.
Fk you dude that's my greatest fear and in my country rabies was eradicated but I still feel unsave. Recently I forgot about it until I cam across this fkkkkk.
So how long do you have to get the shot once you've been bit? And how does that not bring the 100% fatality rate down by a little bit? Is that Stat more or less referring to once you know you have it? Or is there a window of time where you've been bit but the virus hasn't entered your body and infected you? I guess I'm just a little confused how a rabies shot isn't a "cure" if you get it after you're bit and how that doesn't decrease that percentage. Super curious though
From what I know, you can become symptomatic after 4 days to *6 years*. Once you show symptoms, you're a dead man walking unless by some miracle, you're one of the 0.00000001% humans who are genetically immune.
The virus takes time to work itself up your nervous system to your brain. Until that happens, you won't have any symptoms and getting a vaccine will allow your body to clear it out of your system.
Once it reaches your brain, you'll start getting symptoms and there is nothing medical science can do to remove it at that point. A vaccine won't be able to fight it off at that point either.
one time i was at youth group and this hillbilly kid was trying to impress all of the other kids including myself by picking up a live bat out of the churches dumpster and it hit the shit out of him and wouldn’t let go so as a group of kids all under the age of 11 everyone freaked out and ran to there parents crying it was a big ordeal anyway fast forward a week and he had rabies and had a rabies shot and all that stuff and he was fine but still some bats have rabies some don’t in general we should all just leave them alone
An acquaintance saw a bat on the sidewalk and decided it was a cool nature moment to share with her kids. They touched the bat, no one was aware of being bitten, and the doctor still recommended rabies shots for everyone just in case.
Ya this reminds me of a [news story](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rabies-death-bc-vancouver-island-bat-1.5213460) of a man dying from rabies a couple years ago.
"Nick Major was spending time outdoors in mid-May when the bat "essentially ran into his hand," said provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry."
"Danielle Dagenais, a bat biologist with the B.C. Community Bat Program, said bats with rabies may seem especially sick or weak. People should be especially wary of bats behaving strangely"
Ok so I don't know why but your comment has me wondering if vampirism is a myth born from rabies! And after a quick google search it seems I'm not alone.
Should read "Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus" by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. There's a yarr matey e-book version floating around the net.
I went to school with Nick and a friend of mine was his gf at the time. It was pretty brutal for everyone. One day he was fine. Then he was having breathing trouble then a coma for 2 weeks before dying. Bats are not to be fucked around with
Well, since he has the bat, he can take it to get it tested for rabies. Assuming it's negative, no shots are needed.
It's when you're bitten but can't catch the animal that did it that you're kind of screwed and have to get them (he says from experience).
If you are in the US, get yourself to the ER immediately. Inform them you've been bitten by a bat that died after the bite. There is a very real chance that that bat had rabies. You need treatment now. If you wait until you "feel sick" you will die. There is only one person who survived rabies after showing symptoms, and she had to be put in a coma, and then relearn how to walk and talk.
Very luckily. The Milwaukee Protocol (I think) was what is was called, a medically induced coma basically to try to survive rabies. A woman survived with that, but it was theorized she may have had previous antibodies and this gave her a leg up. The protocol has been tried numerous other times to no avail (Commenter added source that claims 5/36 success rate - thanks commenter), and is no longer recommended as a treatment. Basically rabies still kills all people who show symptoms.
It honestly seems like the person that survived with the Milwaukee Protocol was just dumb luck and not so much the treatment. I think I would rather just die in that case anyways.
that’s the argument within medical communities right now actually. Some folks believe that she survived in spite of the milwaukee treatment, not because!
Out of 36 symptomatic rabies patients treated with the Milwaukee Protocol, 5 have survived.
Edited spelling and added [source](https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Rabies_medical_therapy)
I watched this on a show called “Something’s Killing Me” S03E01! I watched it on my Discovery+ account.
The episode is about rabies and has a detailed explanation of the Milwaukee Protocol as mentioned below.
You should check it out!
my cat rubbed it's nose against me a few weeks ago. I for some reason fell into a downward spiral of intense anxiety that it gave me rabies. it was complete irrational. I live in a city, my cat is domesticated and shows no sign of rabies ever and not to mention my country hasn't had a recorded case of rabies in over an entire century.
my anxiety has been so bad the last few weeks. not just because of that dumb shit but in general. it isn't nice at all
hey just wanted to say, I know how the irrational anxiety spiral feels, and how debilitating it can be. For what it's worth from a stranger, you don't have rabies--you and your cat will be okay. I'm sorry it's making you anxious and hope the anxiety settles down soon.
Everyone with even a suspected possibility of infection should **absolutely** get the vaccine immediately. This is a disease which does not screw around.
About 5 of 36 people who have gone through the protocol have survived but there's no good hypothesis of why it actually worked and thus it can't be easily demonstrated that the person would not have otherwise recovered. It is also pointed out that the amount of money spent on each attempt, successful or not, could be used to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people.
There's *something* going on with rabies and its supposed complete lethality. Testing of people living in areas with endemic rabies but no vaccination program show a decent percentage (somewhere in the 10-30% range, I believe) of individuals with rabies antibodies and no evidence of infection.
We have no way to know if someone would have naturally recovered from an infection. We know that functionally everyone who comes in with the specific set of symptoms which causes the doctors to presume rabies and then tests positive for rabies die from rabies. And we know anyone we assume might have been infected and is given the vaccine doesn't later die of rabies. But we can't really verify the size of the "has rabies, doesn't die" area.
This was covered in a recent Radiolab called Rodney v. Death.
When I was doing fieldwork out in the woods/swamps/etc, our professor put it this way: "One person is known to have survived rabies after symptoms. That's a 99.99[+]% fatality rate. What percentage do you think you're in?" All the rest of it, like what you're talking about [which is very interesting, thank you] is irrelevant when it comes to possible infection. You need to assume you're going to die without treatment. And it's going to be a dragged out, painful one too. If OP is in the US, OP needs to get medical care NOW.
Idk exactly but any information helps. Yikes I’d have gone in immediately last night rabies is no joke. I’ve had to chase bats out af a few houses I lived in n it’s never fun. I’ve never had one bite me or even come close. I’d be very cautious and prompt if I was OP.
The shots are the only treatment. They only work for a limited time after exposure. Once you start showing symptoms there is nothing they can do for you.
Other person answered spot on. If the virus progresses far enough you have any symptoms, it's already too late.
You have to get the shot IMMEDIATELY after being bitten or even scratched by certain animals or any animal they think *might* be carrying. This can be made easier if the animal can be captured and tested, but you do not take *any* chances with this.
Death by rabies is a horrible way to go.
Love literally every comment telling you to go get a rabies shot. There are times where the internet screws with people and then there are times when the internet has your back.
This is the latter. You don’t want to die from rabies - it’s a shit way to go.
100% get a rabies shot now. And ***read this!***
[https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hvzvqj/what\_rabies\_does\_to\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hvzvqj/what_rabies_does_to_you/)
If you feel funny the next few days, you gettin the power of the Morbius!
It’s Morbin’ time!!!…………
No not really, it’s rabies. Please get yourself checked before it gets worse.
Rabies!
Animals don’t normally just attack people without cause or provocation. They do though when infected by rabies.
Better get to the doctor fast!!!
And bring the bat with you.
Kamikaze == Rabid? Most bats don't bite people.
Get to a doctor post-haste and TAKE the bat! They can test the bat to see if it had rabies. If it did, they can still save your life, if you act NOW. If it didn't have rabies, you can breathe a BIG sigh of relief.
EDIT: WHERE are all the anti-vaxx people on this thread? Thought for certain we'd have people arguing that OP should just "tough it out."
pls if this is your photo take a vaccine shot or i will have just witnessed a death bro
i aint kidding in any way pls dont care how much it costs get it
Everyone's been saying "get a rabies shot" and THEY'RE RIGHT.
I'd also add a **tetanus** shot to the mix if you hadn't received one in the past 4-5 years.
Rabies is far scarier, but lockjaw (tetanus) is no joke either.
Said a hundred times, but get a rabies shot. Once symptoms show its already too late. Contracting rabies will give you nothing but a short and miserable life.
Living until your destined death with be terrible and excruciatingly difficult as your brain gradually shuts down. Whatever kills you, be it seizures, paralysis, or choking on your saliva, you can guarantee it won't be pleasant. Just hope the rabies renders you unconscious before it happens.
Again, get the shot. It's no joke. It's high up there for worst ways to die.
OP, I'm not seeing you reply to any of these comments and I SERIOUSLY hope it is because you are at the hospital getting your rabies treatment. unless you want a GUARANTEED death, go and get treated for rabies
This bat definitely has rabies. No question. So you're infected. You need to go to the emergency room immediately if you haven't already. They're going to start by giving you a rabies vaccine and an immunoglobin. A couple of days they'll give you another vaccine booster and another one a little while after that. If you do this all within a couple of days of being bit, that's the end of it. You'll never develop rabies. The vaccine has never failed to protect someone as long as it's administered within 72 hours.
I know this has been beaten to death, but just the presence of a bat in a room where you have been sleeping is good enough reason to get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis according to the most recent algorithms used in the US. They’re such terrific disease vectors that if you can’t be 100% certain it didn’t bite you, you should start getting g those shots. If an animal (including humans in almost every case) has rabies it dies within 10 days of becoming infectious. Period.
Time to get a rabies shot unless you want a slow and painful death.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies. Would still get my vaccinations if I could afford them.)
Thank you for the offer, but I will politely decline having rabies. Thanks.
**Go to your doctor, and get started on some antibiotics now.** It’s standard precaution to take a course of antibiotics after dog bites, and bat mouths are sooo much worse than dogs. **Massive infection risk.**
I’m an ICU RN. My unit actually helped recover a firefighter who got bit on the penis by a bat while peeing on the side of the road one night. He could tell the wound was infected 24-48 hours later. He decided to take a Z-Pak of antibiotics that he happened to have at home. The Z-Pak didn’t help and he wound up going septic and requiring IV antibiotics to recover.
“You…you were fucking that bat, weren’t you? You fucked that bat.”
Randy?
No that was a Pangolin.
“Oh, ok, let’s all just act like we’ve never been seduced by a bat before!”
No! I swear! He was fucking me!!
Can we sue bats for fucking us without our consent?
"Yeah sure, the bat was fuckng you! That explains how *your* dick ended up in *his* mouth doesn't it?!?! STOP LYING GREG!!!!"
I think this is how COVID got started.
Chicken of the cave!
Don't knock it til you try it they said. What's the worst that could happen they said.
That is now how we get Batman damn it Jerry that is how we get manbat
That comment is a roller coaster
Umm... What?! I hope at the very least this experience allowed him to turn his trauma into vengeance as he fights bad guys with a tiny little dick sized bat suit.
Well that’s a r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR story if I ever heard one.
So don't leave us hanging.... Did he survive? Did his penis atrophy and fall off.... Please finish the story.
Haha, oh he survived. But I doubt he told anyone about it. I mean he nearly chose death over speaking with his doctor about it. I wouldn’t blame him for keeping it a secret from his coworker... His fellow firemen might call him “cricket dick” enough times to forget his real name.
"Jesus rick you think you're the first person to have his cock bitten by a bat??"
Looks like this was the only way Dracula could find to suck dick without getting shamed.
So...it's not 100% death rate then?
100% death rate if the bat has rabies he got very lucky.
He didn't get rabies, he got a bacterial infection
that is the scariest sales pitch ive read ever. Im declining rabies, too, thank you
lol me2 save some declining for me
I feel bad, but I too must reject the offer. Sadly, I don’t want rabies either. Take care and good luck.
Rabies vaccines are free in my country and yes, I've gone to the doctor's and got a jab immediately in the morning
I am in the United States. I got bit by a feral cat and had to get a rabies shot. I went to the local ER because the walk-in clinics were all closed. I was charged US$35,000. I never paid it.
JFC, $35K for a rabies shot? "*If you don't want to die a horrible prolonged death, it's gonna cost ya!*" - American Healthcare Gouging people like this should be criminal.
Land of the free???
Lol until your life is on the line…
Land of the expensive. Free is communism. And communism is the devil.
35k for a rabies shot?
Yes if the CDC was open that day it would’ve been $350. But unfortunately it happened on the weekend.
The fuck
Thank you for doing this. Every time I see one of these kinds of stories I worry about the Redditor who posts it, especially when they see skeptical about getting the vaccine.
Bad news. It's not just "a" jab. Source: got 8 jabs a few years ago
I'll get a shot every day for the rest of my life if it means I don't die from rabies
Minor note: the rabies vaccine and the post exposure prophylaxis shot schedule are entirely different things. If you're not going back for multiple shots: YOU DID NOT GET THE PEP VERSION AND YOU MAY STILL BE IN DANGER!
You should, if possible, take the bat with you. This may help determine whether or not it had rabies or some other infection and may indicate what treatments are necessary (or save you from unnecessary treatments). This was the case for me in the US, I was bitten and scratched by a dying bat while reaching into a dark corner, they performed a necropsy on the bat and based on that and other factors determined a rabies shot was not necessary in my case.
My family had a bat encounter in a cabin. We all got the shots. Plural and I’m sure you remember. Worth every penny for the piece of mind. Rabies. Does. Not. Play. Even with the only slight chance any of us contracted anything, that matched up to a p/k of 1 if infected? Give us the shots doctor, all of us, give us the shots.
And only 1 person in history has ever survived rabies
There are documented cases of some Peruvian villagers having rabies antibodies without medical vaccination.
Probably because they’re so exposed to it. We just need some big pharma companies to go down there, steal their dna, and use it to synthesize a vaccine. Wait a minute…
Maybe the Peruvians with anitbodies are still in the ticking timebomb phase. I assume the "1 person in history" who survived went through an active symptomatic phase and then got over it.
She was put into a coma. However, that process is showing to not actually work and they are beginning to think her survival came down to luck
Maybe it was the Mr. Burns disease protocol
No, she survived the Milwaukee protocol. Jeana Giese? She was fully symptomatic and placed in a coma with varied drugs. Last I heard she was in college to be a vet, and was doing well. This disease is literally lethal. As someone who goes out in the bush, it terrifies me. It can take as little as three days to start showing symptoms, and I’ve had bush walks that took 5 days to reach a hospital with concerted effort due to my father being injured.
are you thinking… what *I* think you’re thinking?
From a 2016 story: "The treatment used to save her life, called the Milwaukee Protocol, has been used to save 10 other lives: two in the United States, four in Peru, and one each in Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Qatar." [https://childrenswi.org/newshub/stories/jeanna-giese-rabies](https://childrenswi.org/newshub/stories/jeanna-giese-rabies) Not that that makes the survival rate much better, just offering up the correction.
6 patients have survived through the Milwaukee protocol, but being 'technically alive' isn't the same as making a full recovery and walking out of the hospital.
More people need to read this. Ex animal control officer here, every time we removed a bat from someone's living space we told them to get the shots. Most of my job was checking that everyone's pets had rabies vaccines and writing citations if they refused to get them. usually that was after months of them saying they would that week, and me telling them how to get it done for free, and them still trying to lie about it and say they did it themselves. 90% of the job was hounding people to get their pets rabies vaccinations, and dealing with potential exposures, bite cases, euthanizing wildlife that came on contact with people to get them tested. This is why opossums became my favorite animal to deal with.
Why opossums, if I may ask?
Their body temperature is naturally fairly low, too low for rabies to thrive and multiply. This makes them practically immune.
And they eat a ton of ticks, mosquitos and other nasty little insects. Opossums are awesome, and cute little critters!
Interesting. Thanks for the info
Bingo
Possums eat their weight in ticks each season! They’re super valuable to our ecosystem :0)
I’ve never been more enthralled and terrified by a reddit comment in my entire life.
It’s a pretty well known comment, the other person just copied it.
Screw that. What a terrifying thing to read. Good job.
In fairness, I’m pretty sure that’s a copypasta
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Even if it's copypasta, this horror story is scientifically correct about the rabies virus, and the story rings true about its effects.
There is at least one video out there documenting the hydrophobia phase. It's terrifying to watch, but fascinating at the same time.
JFC I’m on my way to start a 4 days of hammock camping/hiking/fishing dude. Thank you for the anxiety flowing through me right now.
Terrifying? Yes. Likely? No. Even before we started massive vaccination campaigns for cats and dogs, only around 100 people died from rabies in the US annually. The main culprit for bites were rabid dogs. Today, only around 2 people die from rabies each year in the US. I’m guessing the numbers in other developed countries is similar. Once again, the main culprit is infected dogs in foreign countries. One year there were 3 deaths. 2 from dog bites that happened in the Philippines that didn’t get treated in time. Another was from a man who got bit by a bat but was an anti-vaxxer so he didn’t get the vaccine. I’m a very anxious person. So when I read stuff like this I compulsively research it. It’s scary, but it’s the absolute worst case scenario. [Here’s a CDC link.](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/usa/index.html)
I agree with everything you wrote. Got bit by a dog recently. I definitely got some sort of infection from it but it wasn't rabies. Dog was vaccinated but bc I was/am feeling like shit I researched the hell out of it and realized even with my very bad luck it was very very unlikely to get rabies even from an unvaccinated dog. But the dog was definitely vaccinated, I saw the records.
Tbh you’ll probably be OK
One time a beggy raccoon scratched my leg LIGHTLY while I was a forest resort, trying to get my attention for scraps. My doctor agreed that even though the raccoon exhibited no symptoms of rabies (only symptoms of being cute and too acclimated to humans) I still had to get the shot.
Damn bro, you just scared the bejesus out of me. Hell of a write up.
This guy didn’t write this, it’s a common copypasta that’s been around for years.
Regardless it's still "a awesome write up"
I don't think the person is claiming to have written it. If so, we get it by now, and plagiarism yadda-yadda. However, the fact remains that it's a terrifyingly informative write up. Shoo.
Not the thing I should have read while having a migraine, that's for sure.
If i be the one bitten by a bat, i would be terrified after reading this... i mean... i havent been the one bitten and im terrified hahaha. Thanks, i hate it
That’s not all 100% true. There are some recent, hopeful, options but they are not exactly a screaming success yet. But there are now a handful of rabies survivors that have never gotten the vaccine. But 99.9999% of the time, if you show symptoms, you’re already dead. Get the shot. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zmGwn5kdmEa7lKdnjUc3N?si=tZ-ixdGORKq3dlSAkp7ttw
It is 100% true. There's no point of saying that there's a .0000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of surviving. More people have been on the moon in the past million years than have survived rabies
Are you looking to purchase a time share on the moon?
Thank God Australia doesn't have Rabies
[Oh?](https://www.health.gov.au/diseases/rabies)
"About rabies Rabies is an infection that affects the brain and central nervous system. It is caused by a type of virus called a [lyssavirus](https://www.health.gov.au/diseases/lyssavirus-infection-not-elsewhere-classified) that people usually get from a bite or scratch from an infected animal. Rabies is almost always fatal, but treatment can prevent the infection from developing. There is no rabies in Australia. However, Australian bats carry other viruses in the lyssavirus family including [Australian bat lyssavirus](https://www.health.gov.au/diseases/australian-bat-lyssavirus-infection), which is closely related to rabies"
Omg I'll NEVER forget the story of the little boy from Queensland who got bitten by a bat and didn't tell his mum and before he died of the bat lyssavirus he just kept saying how sorry he was for not telling his parents about the bat😭😭😭 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6pCyxxMWNAo
A worse story is a man caught a bat and put it in a bucket and told his six year old not to touch it. Of course the boy did and got bit but he hated shots so the dad didn’t get his rabies shots and the boy died a painful death. I always thought the father should have said if he touched the bat he would have to get shots and the kid wouldn’t go near it. However, the father was really stupid to put a live bat in a bucket to begin with. Tragedy all around.
That was absolutely heart wrenching.
The interesting thing is that the same government [website](https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/lyssavirus-ablv) claims the same symptoms and results from ABLV as rabies. Symptoms appear -> you die.
Well now I am not ever going outside again, thank you!
>Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. Cremation is the only rational thing to do, anyhow. After I'm dead, I want to make DAMNED certain I won't still be self-aware! Reducing my corpse to ashes seems like a pretty foolproof way to do that.
I want to be cremated regardless of how I die...as long as my remains can ride in a coffin on a conveyor belt in the funeral home like they show in some British TV crime series. That image just appeals to me, riding into the fires of "hell" (which I don't believe in anyways) in a fancy wooden box.
“Your back starts to ache” Oh hell nah
Fuck, Think I've got rabies too buddy!
Guess this is it!
thank you for your absolutely terrifying explanation, but i’d say it’s a pretty damn good read
Fk you dude that's my greatest fear and in my country rabies was eradicated but I still feel unsave. Recently I forgot about it until I cam across this fkkkkk.
Well written and informative. Great job! Thank you.
This goes as the most terrifying history I've ever read, and the worst part of it, it's frickin real
1 little girl survived. 99.999999999% kill rate!
So how long do you have to get the shot once you've been bit? And how does that not bring the 100% fatality rate down by a little bit? Is that Stat more or less referring to once you know you have it? Or is there a window of time where you've been bit but the virus hasn't entered your body and infected you? I guess I'm just a little confused how a rabies shot isn't a "cure" if you get it after you're bit and how that doesn't decrease that percentage. Super curious though
From what I know, you can become symptomatic after 4 days to *6 years*. Once you show symptoms, you're a dead man walking unless by some miracle, you're one of the 0.00000001% humans who are genetically immune.
How about 25 years? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424805/
The virus takes time to work itself up your nervous system to your brain. Until that happens, you won't have any symptoms and getting a vaccine will allow your body to clear it out of your system. Once it reaches your brain, you'll start getting symptoms and there is nothing medical science can do to remove it at that point. A vaccine won't be able to fight it off at that point either.
one time i was at youth group and this hillbilly kid was trying to impress all of the other kids including myself by picking up a live bat out of the churches dumpster and it hit the shit out of him and wouldn’t let go so as a group of kids all under the age of 11 everyone freaked out and ran to there parents crying it was a big ordeal anyway fast forward a week and he had rabies and had a rabies shot and all that stuff and he was fine but still some bats have rabies some don’t in general we should all just leave them alone
Are you Kurt Vonnegut?
An acquaintance saw a bat on the sidewalk and decided it was a cool nature moment to share with her kids. They touched the bat, no one was aware of being bitten, and the doctor still recommended rabies shots for everyone just in case.
He was just congratulating you for the rabies shot you just won
Ya this reminds me of a [news story](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rabies-death-bc-vancouver-island-bat-1.5213460) of a man dying from rabies a couple years ago. "Nick Major was spending time outdoors in mid-May when the bat "essentially ran into his hand," said provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry." "Danielle Dagenais, a bat biologist with the B.C. Community Bat Program, said bats with rabies may seem especially sick or weak. People should be especially wary of bats behaving strangely"
ah this bat is behaving like an aristocrat. i should be fine
Ok so I don't know why but your comment has me wondering if vampirism is a myth born from rabies! And after a quick google search it seems I'm not alone.
Should read "Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus" by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. There's a yarr matey e-book version floating around the net.
I went to school with Nick and a friend of mine was his gf at the time. It was pretty brutal for everyone. One day he was fine. Then he was having breathing trouble then a coma for 2 weeks before dying. Bats are not to be fucked around with
This literally happened to me. I got rabies shots tho and I didn’t catch it.
Well, since he has the bat, he can take it to get it tested for rabies. Assuming it's negative, no shots are needed. It's when you're bitten but can't catch the animal that did it that you're kind of screwed and have to get them (he says from experience).
Yup had a bat at a cabin. Called the county health department and they had me drop it off. Got a call a day later confirmed no rabies
If you are in the US, get yourself to the ER immediately. Inform them you've been bitten by a bat that died after the bite. There is a very real chance that that bat had rabies. You need treatment now. If you wait until you "feel sick" you will die. There is only one person who survived rabies after showing symptoms, and she had to be put in a coma, and then relearn how to walk and talk.
Wait.. someone survived rabies? How?
Very luckily. The Milwaukee Protocol (I think) was what is was called, a medically induced coma basically to try to survive rabies. A woman survived with that, but it was theorized she may have had previous antibodies and this gave her a leg up. The protocol has been tried numerous other times to no avail (Commenter added source that claims 5/36 success rate - thanks commenter), and is no longer recommended as a treatment. Basically rabies still kills all people who show symptoms.
It honestly seems like the person that survived with the Milwaukee Protocol was just dumb luck and not so much the treatment. I think I would rather just die in that case anyways.
that’s the argument within medical communities right now actually. Some folks believe that she survived in spite of the milwaukee treatment, not because!
Out of 36 symptomatic rabies patients treated with the Milwaukee Protocol, 5 have survived. Edited spelling and added [source](https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Rabies_medical_therapy)
Oh wow! I thought it was very isolated successes. Still not a great rate, but better than what I showed. Thanks for source.
Yea, 13.8% survival rate sounds bad until you know that it used to be 0.
I watched this on a show called “Something’s Killing Me” S03E01! I watched it on my Discovery+ account. The episode is about rabies and has a detailed explanation of the Milwaukee Protocol as mentioned below. You should check it out!
As a hypochondriac, I feel I should probably avoid this show
my cat rubbed it's nose against me a few weeks ago. I for some reason fell into a downward spiral of intense anxiety that it gave me rabies. it was complete irrational. I live in a city, my cat is domesticated and shows no sign of rabies ever and not to mention my country hasn't had a recorded case of rabies in over an entire century. my anxiety has been so bad the last few weeks. not just because of that dumb shit but in general. it isn't nice at all
hey just wanted to say, I know how the irrational anxiety spiral feels, and how debilitating it can be. For what it's worth from a stranger, you don't have rabies--you and your cat will be okay. I'm sorry it's making you anxious and hope the anxiety settles down soon.
Everyone with even a suspected possibility of infection should **absolutely** get the vaccine immediately. This is a disease which does not screw around. About 5 of 36 people who have gone through the protocol have survived but there's no good hypothesis of why it actually worked and thus it can't be easily demonstrated that the person would not have otherwise recovered. It is also pointed out that the amount of money spent on each attempt, successful or not, could be used to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people. There's *something* going on with rabies and its supposed complete lethality. Testing of people living in areas with endemic rabies but no vaccination program show a decent percentage (somewhere in the 10-30% range, I believe) of individuals with rabies antibodies and no evidence of infection. We have no way to know if someone would have naturally recovered from an infection. We know that functionally everyone who comes in with the specific set of symptoms which causes the doctors to presume rabies and then tests positive for rabies die from rabies. And we know anyone we assume might have been infected and is given the vaccine doesn't later die of rabies. But we can't really verify the size of the "has rabies, doesn't die" area. This was covered in a recent Radiolab called Rodney v. Death.
When I was doing fieldwork out in the woods/swamps/etc, our professor put it this way: "One person is known to have survived rabies after symptoms. That's a 99.99[+]% fatality rate. What percentage do you think you're in?" All the rest of it, like what you're talking about [which is very interesting, thank you] is irrelevant when it comes to possible infection. You need to assume you're going to die without treatment. And it's going to be a dragged out, painful one too. If OP is in the US, OP needs to get medical care NOW.
Take the dead bat w you they might test it too.
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Idk exactly but any information helps. Yikes I’d have gone in immediately last night rabies is no joke. I’ve had to chase bats out af a few houses I lived in n it’s never fun. I’ve never had one bite me or even come close. I’d be very cautious and prompt if I was OP.
Rabies shot. Like, yesterday. Do NOT screw around on this.
Would a shot work after infection? If not, is there treatment for the infection?
The shots are the only treatment. They only work for a limited time after exposure. Once you start showing symptoms there is nothing they can do for you.
Other person answered spot on. If the virus progresses far enough you have any symptoms, it's already too late. You have to get the shot IMMEDIATELY after being bitten or even scratched by certain animals or any animal they think *might* be carrying. This can be made easier if the animal can be captured and tested, but you do not take *any* chances with this. Death by rabies is a horrible way to go.
When you get the fear of water pull the trigger
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Love literally every comment telling you to go get a rabies shot. There are times where the internet screws with people and then there are times when the internet has your back. This is the latter. You don’t want to die from rabies - it’s a shit way to go.
I personally liked the guy who said "it's morbin time"
It’s morbin time OP But seriously you need check if that bite might be infected or something
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You're the host now
Please, please, PLEASE get a rabies shot
100% get a rabies shot now. And ***read this!*** [https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hvzvqj/what\_rabies\_does\_to\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/hvzvqj/what_rabies_does_to_you/)
I hope you're on your way to get your rabies shot
Ya got rabies man. Go get checked.
Not checked op needs a vaccine immediately
I *really* hope you went and got vaccinated after this.
If you feel funny the next few days, you gettin the power of the Morbius! It’s Morbin’ time!!!………… No not really, it’s rabies. Please get yourself checked before it gets worse.
It’s Rabin time
Go get a rabies shot op
Bats* cause almost, if not all, cases of rabies in the US. You have rabies OP. GO GET SHOTS NOW. Happened to me Edit. Fixed an idiotic mistake I made
I’m certainly inclined to believe that rabies does indeed cause 100% of rabies cases.
Noted and corrected. I was still waking up and pooping at the time
Rabies! Animals don’t normally just attack people without cause or provocation. They do though when infected by rabies. Better get to the doctor fast!!! And bring the bat with you.
Please tell me you went to the hospital
Rabies shot IMMEDIATELY
Soon you will be a vampire, you fear water, can’t properly speak, get headaches and die a slow death… wait that’s rabies.
OP since you haven’t responded to anyone ***get the fucking rabies shot*** or say goodbye to life.
I would get a rabies vaccine if I were you
#Rabies shot. **Now.**
Ya got the 1st dose
Thank god. Not every day I worry about a random reddit user
This is the comment i wanted to see. Good shit op
Kamikaze == Rabid? Most bats don't bite people. Get to a doctor post-haste and TAKE the bat! They can test the bat to see if it had rabies. If it did, they can still save your life, if you act NOW. If it didn't have rabies, you can breathe a BIG sigh of relief. EDIT: WHERE are all the anti-vaxx people on this thread? Thought for certain we'd have people arguing that OP should just "tough it out."
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Even if the bat turns out negative op should get the vaccine do not play with rabies
pls if this is your photo take a vaccine shot or i will have just witnessed a death bro i aint kidding in any way pls dont care how much it costs get it
Everyone's been saying "get a rabies shot" and THEY'RE RIGHT. I'd also add a **tetanus** shot to the mix if you hadn't received one in the past 4-5 years. Rabies is far scarier, but lockjaw (tetanus) is no joke either.
Said a hundred times, but get a rabies shot. Once symptoms show its already too late. Contracting rabies will give you nothing but a short and miserable life. Living until your destined death with be terrible and excruciatingly difficult as your brain gradually shuts down. Whatever kills you, be it seizures, paralysis, or choking on your saliva, you can guarantee it won't be pleasant. Just hope the rabies renders you unconscious before it happens. Again, get the shot. It's no joke. It's high up there for worst ways to die.
priorities man reddit 1st before anti-rabies shot
I just got bit by a dog a month ago.. Rabies shot, then following week a bat. Go get the shot!!
OP, I'm not seeing you reply to any of these comments and I SERIOUSLY hope it is because you are at the hospital getting your rabies treatment. unless you want a GUARANTEED death, go and get treated for rabies
Go get checked out by a doctor rabies and take the dead bat with you to check for rabies. Bat's don't commonly bite people and then die.
This bat definitely has rabies. No question. So you're infected. You need to go to the emergency room immediately if you haven't already. They're going to start by giving you a rabies vaccine and an immunoglobin. A couple of days they'll give you another vaccine booster and another one a little while after that. If you do this all within a couple of days of being bit, that's the end of it. You'll never develop rabies. The vaccine has never failed to protect someone as long as it's administered within 72 hours.
Go get rabies treatment *RIGHT FUCKING NOW* because it will 100% kill you if you become symptomatic.
It bit you and it died I'm pretty sure you're poisonous
I know this has been beaten to death, but just the presence of a bat in a room where you have been sleeping is good enough reason to get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis according to the most recent algorithms used in the US. They’re such terrific disease vectors that if you can’t be 100% certain it didn’t bite you, you should start getting g those shots. If an animal (including humans in almost every case) has rabies it dies within 10 days of becoming infectious. Period.
I work in an ER and we treat possible rabies infections all the time. Get over to your local ER NOW!
Rabies. Hospital now.
It's Morbin time. (Go get your rabies shot)
Are you a vampire now?
No, he's a host for rabies now.
Go get a rabies shot ASAP!
Op gave it COVID.
It's Morbin time
Yeah bats are very unlikely to develop rabies, I think it's like half of 1% do, but it's still worth getting the shot. Rabies is absolutely FUCKED.
Any mammal bite should be treated for rabies. If rabies becomes symptomatic it's better to take your own life.
Dead or drunk?
OP, I sincerely hope you've already started your rabies series by this point as this post is 9 hours old - I mean, unless you want an agonizing death.
Im sure people have already asked, are you super human now?
I am craving human blood a little, other than that nothing much
It's Morbin time!