Posted on 03/19/2015 1:07:50 PM PDT by george76
CARLISLE, Pa. — Authorities say a rat being raised to feed a Pennsylvania family's pet snakes ended up biting a 6-month-old boy, killing him.
Cumberland County Coroner Charlie Hall said Thursday that the baby died from meningitis and myocarditis transmitted through the bite.
The family lives in Dillsburg. The coroner didn't identify the boy or his family.
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Yeah ... ‘cause A WHOLE bunch’a torches and pitchforks would be dotting THAT community
What the rat was allowed to roam free in the house?
Ping!
How horrible.
Why raise a rat when so many free range rats are available?
Its insane that this even had a chance to happen.
Sterilze these people ASAP
Free Range, yup, probably plenty on their town council or what ever they have
[Sterilze these people ASAP]
Absolute morons!
We had a mouse kill a snake once.
But we would never of put a mouse in the baby’s cage.
So the emergency room sent a sick child home to die.
Providing that the parents knew and told the ER that he had been bit this sounds like malpractice.
Got a freezer full of rats ain’t gonna bite nobody.
The snake community preaches F/T for a lot of reasons.
Now they have another.
Maybe the balkers will listen, now.
Poor baby.
There was no reason for this.
No snake will starve itself rather eating frozen.
Parasites and poison plus they’re fed for maximum nutritional benefit.
What is wrong with people?!
Whomever invents a successful snake chow will get filthy rich.
We’d all love a ready made alternative.
Some people get off on live feeding.
Others think they can’t switch over to frozen.
I’m neither.
I have rescues with rat bite scars.
Probably because they are weirdos that raise snakes.
Never met anyone with a pet snake (other than a kid) who was quite right in the head.
First of all, I poked around on the net and found that according to a local news report, the rat bite history was not disclosed by the parents until after the baby had died.
A baby with a rash and a vague history of respiratory symptoms might best be admitted, but most are sent home because of the sheer volume of kids with URI symptoms and rashes. Out of necessity many infants with the same presentation would not be admitted by most ER physicians.
But 'not admitted' does NOT mean 'abandoned' or "blown off".
EVERY time someone leaves the ER they or their caretakers are told repeatedly to return if things get worse. I am sure the staff did this. In fact, they have regulations so that every ER has to have a good follow-up plan for discharges.
But these snake-and-rat people apparently waited until the child was nearly dead before bringing him back.
And the best part is, you think that physicians should finance this sort of idiocy on the part of the parents, and that the physicians should be publicly tried. You probably would like to see the ER physician go to jail, I bet.
Makes me sick in this day and age that millions of morons won't accept the terrible consequences of their chronic catastrophic stupidity.
It is why the world is such a mess today.
Wonder why Americans have zero common sense?
Because most people hearing this story, would as well seek to blame the physician, instead of the stone stupid and reckless parents who set up this bizarre situation with their weird and vain hobbies.
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