Posted on 01/15/2018 3:03:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
6-year-old Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday
A 6-year-old Florida boy who was undergoing experimental treatment after being diagnosed with rabies has died.
Ryker Roque passed away in an Orlando hospital, his father said Monday.
Roque had been undergoing the treatment, called the Milwaukee protocol, after he was scratched by a bat. His father, Henry Roque, had found the sick bat and put it in a bucket, telling his son not to touch it.
"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," Henry Roque told NBC News.
When Ryker complained of numb fingers and a headache a week later, he was rushed to the hospital. Ryker was put into a medically induced coma, forcing his body to create its own specialized antibodies to fight off the illness.
The treatment has only worked twice in the U.S. and 18 times around the world.
The media still describes the treatment as “Painful shots.” It is only 3 shots in the bottom (hip). no big deal!
Here's a pro tip:
Bat, monkey, dog, fox, skunk, raccoon, coyote scratch/bite: Get the shots. Right away. Less than 24 hours.
No charge.
“Rabies is not treatable It is however preventable”
Not sure what you mean.
I wonder if the father was accurate about the dates. Maybe he didn’t want to admit how long he waited.
That is utterly ridiculous. A child died because the parents can’t say, “You WILL get these shots and that’s final.” This is just tragic and stupid.
It’s only for a few moments.
Very, very sad. I am guessing that the father thought everything was ok after he washed the boys hands, as instructed on google. He probably thought, after a few days came and went, that the boy was fine. I can only imagine how horrible he felt when the symptoms kicked in. He will surely never get over this.
Our daughter had them many years ago after a squirrel bit her on her hand while walking home from school. She was carrying an Apple. Doc and Dept of health insisted on shots as they said it was not characteristic behavior for a squirrel.
He didn't want shots so his buddy-dad (not a parent-dad) didn't seek them, figuring soap and water would suffice...
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Nonsense!
Rabies shots do nothing but make you sick if you don’t have the infection. With the infection, they accelerate your death.
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Negligent parenting there. I hate bats with a passion. I know they kill mosquitoes, but I see they them as disease carrying flying mice.
Or Mom and Dad could have said, Honey, we know its scary. We will stay with you the whole time and you must do this, or you could die. We love you too much to risk losing you.
Our daughter had them in the stomach and it want as bad as we anticipated from hearing reports about painful rabies shots.
A jar would be better, but either way call your animal control officer afterward.
And certainly, do not leave the animal where your child can reach it.
What I find surprising is that the father did not do more than look up what to do about it on-line. And I find it hard to believe that what he found on-line did not say seek immediate medical attention.
However, I do find that the current generation of parents exceedingly ignorant and arrogant. Rarely seeking advice from their parents when it comes to raising children. Today apparently giving birth supplies a mother with all the knowledge necessary to raise a child properly.
Just my personal experience mind you.
It is quite preventable, and occasionally it can be survived with treatment.
I was “deselected” the day before we were scheduled to leave for lovely Kabul. Lucky break. I avoided the gamma globulin shots in the hip that everyone else got as well as the amoebic dysentery that everyone who went contracted. Of the whole “class” of about 60, 58 returned after a month in country. There’s a two-syllable word that’s been in the news lately that describes Afghanistan. Just wish I could think of it.
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