Posted on 01/14/2018 4:39:17 AM PST by Lmo56
It started with a bat in a bucket and a curious 6-year-old boy.
Now that boy, Ryker Roque, is being kept under anesthesia in an Orlando hospital in a desperate bid to save him from the deadliest virus there is: rabies.
If Ryker Roque lives, he will be only the third child in the U.S. to survive rabies, which is almost always fatal.
But the family is trying an experimental technique they hope will help Ryker survive the terrible infection.
It started when Ryker's father, Henry Roque, found a sick bat.
"(I) found a bat, put it in a little bucket, put it on the porch and I had asked my son, 'don't touch it under any circumstances'," Roque told NBC News.
"So, apparently he put his hand in there and touched it and he said it only scratched him, so I frantically googled it real quick and it says to wash his hands with soap, hot water for five minutes."
They knew they should have taken Ryker for immediate medical attention but relented when Ryker cried at the thought of getting shots.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...
1. You DON'T leave a 6-year old unattended with a bat.
AND
2. Google AIN'T a doctor.
AND
3. You AIN'T his "buddy", you AIN'T his "pal" - you're his FATHER. You shoulda acted like one and taken the kid for medical attention. Who cares if the kid didn't want to get a shot?
Hope the kid pulls through ...
I'm sorry, what?
Seriously, I'm saying a prayer for this child of really, really foolish parents.
>>but relented when Ryker cried at the thought of getting shots.
SMH
Willful ignorance can have deadly consequences.
By this time her husband and grown son came running. They killed the skunk and wrapped the head in a plastic bag and headed for the hospital.
All three of them had to have the shot. But it was 100% effective. The skunk was positive for rabies. All three of them lived.
The hospital told them that skunks with rabies hiss and spray droplets of infected saliva into the air. They were all exposed, especially my friend with the bite on her leg.
This happened 15 years ago in Calif.
Ditto on all of that and I’m glad they put that in the story.
Maybe just maybe it will help some of the knucklehead parents who are so common out there.
Considering that rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms show up, that father was just plain stupid not to take his son for treatment.
The “Wisconsin” protocol has had two successes, and several failures. Until we know why it was successful in two cases, we won’t be able to do much to improve survival of symptomatic rabies.
pops sounds like a dumbass. You put a sick bat in a bucket and tell your kid not to touch it? At least put it up high!
How about all those people who died of rabies in the old west. That would mean hundreds or even thousands of deaths from rabies to that one survivor.
Or better...kill the bat.
When you find a wild animal who is clearly sick, it ain’t getting better.
I remember this
Willow Creek Child Survives Rabies
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2011/jun/13/willow-creek-child-survives-rabies/
Who would tell a 6 year old that they were going to get shots BEFORE taking them for medical attention. Does that dad also having an aggressive pitbull or loaded guns on the table?
Foolish, indeed. Stupid. Negligent, the list goes on.
From the story, it looks like the father/parents cared more for the bat then for their son.
What were they planning to do with the bat, bring him to the vet?
Personally, I would have "disposed" of the bat and made sure my children were safe. Kind of like in "Old Yeller" when Travis does what he knows has to be done.
My Dad had to go through rabies shots after he was bitten by a stray dog in Chicago in the '40s. He said they were painful but they saved his life.
Prayers for that little boy.
Several years ago, my dad was down the hill at his shop and my mom heard their yellow lab frantically barking & sometimes yelping in their backyard. She looked out and saw a fox attacking him. She opened the sliding door to let the dog inside but the fox ran towards it and she slammed the door on its head. That happened several times and still the thing kept fighting with the dog as if it was uninjured. Finally Mom called my dad at the shop and he drove to the house and at 76 and having Parkinson’s and poor eyesight, he killed the thing with nothing but a huge stick. The dog had his rabies shots current so was ‘quarantined’ for a time for safety. I always felt like the poor guy probably thought he was being punished.
of course you are correct. But still! Out of reach of children ( dumbass!!!)
He might as well have. Heck, invite a hungry grizzly bear into the house and leave your son alone with him.
This poor child is not getting adequate parenting at all. To say the least.
Some people are not meant to be parents.
>>Who would tell a 6 year old...
Isn’t this the same generation of super-geniuses who’re teaching their kids they can change their gender?
I have gone through it twice since 2013. It was 4 shots. I am not sure, but I heard they used to give the shots in the stomach area, and it was a bunch of shots. I got 4 shots in my arm. It wasn’t any worse than any other shot I ever got. Shots in the dental chair were worse than the rabies shots.
Had the same thought, “What?” I didn’t like shots either, but didn’t stop my parents from doing what they needed to do to protect me.
Until the Wisconsin protocol, no one ever survived from symptomatic rabies. It has a 100% death rate. Thousands of people die from rabies every year.
Someone linked an article that claimed that there are now 4 people who survived rabies without having any post-exposure prophylaxis. Even with the Wisconsin protocol, survival is low.
This is also the generation who often aren’t vaccinating at all because they saw something on “Oprah” that convinced them it isn’t necessary.
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