Posted on 07/11/2009 10:13:01 PM PDT by JoeProBono
BOCA RATON, Fla., July 11 (UPI) -- A 60-year-old man in Boca Raton, Fla., says he can find humor in being attacked by a rabid fox despite facing a month of painful shots.
Stephen Guleff said while he may be a Vietnam War veteran, the recent attack by the overly aggressive fox in South Beach Park left him screaming for help, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said Friday.
"I was screaming like a woman," Guleff joked about Thursday's attack. "I could have put that on YouTube.
"It wasn't like it was looking for food. It was looking for revenge or something."
He said the Florida State Laboratory later determined the fox was rabid.
Guleff told the Sun-Sentinel he found it easier to accept the incident when he considered who else the fox, which was blamed for attacking two other people the same day, could have attacked.
"I'm actually grateful that it happened to me and not a little child," he said of the animal, which was killed by one of its other victims.
Have there been an unusual amount of rabies incidents lately?
/johnny
lawl
Photoshopped, but excellent.
Whenever my wife complains about our Jack Russell Terrier acting like a thug I tell her “Thank God he doesn’t have wings”.
Typical MSM reporting. Things have changed remarkably in the last 30 years but the MSM has failed to keep up with the progress.
As soon as I read something as misleading as this I have to wonder what else in the story is wrong or out-of-date. It's like they learn a cliche phrase, like Piper Cub, and then never move on!
Lots of medications are injected into the “stomach.” Actually they're not injected into the stomach at all, but rather the fatty tissue under the skin on the abdomen. If you've had hip replacement surgery chances are you've had to give yourself, or have someone give you, the medication that's used to prevent blood clots. They are given usually in the abdomen and are not particularly painful. In fact, frequently you don't even feel the actual injection at all, just the reaction later of the meds with the tissue.
Much of the discomfort of early rabies shots had nothing to do with where they were given but rather from the body's adverse reaction to the vaccine which was based on duck embryo tissue.
I'm not sure how many injections are in the series now, it was less than 14 last time I had to give them to anyone (30 plus years ago) and I'm thinking it's something like five or six these days. And they've made great strides in producing a vaccine that isn't as destructive of tissue at the injection site.
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