Posted on 05/10/2019 8:27:33 AM PDT by SMGFan
An animal lover died after being bitten by a puppy she rescued that was infected with rabies, according to reports.
Birgitte Kallestad passed away Monday — more than two months after taking in the dog she found roaming the streets of the Philippines, the family said in a statement reported by the Daily Mail.
“Our dear Birgitte loved animals,” her family said. “Our fear is that this will happen to others who have a warm heart like her.”
The 24-year-old Norwegian was on vacation with her pals and riding mopeds when they came across the pooch.
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(Did the puppy die too?)
How would you know a dog roaming the streets in the Philippines wasn’t someone else’s dog anyway?
That is NOT a pleasant death. My sister gave an EEG to someone with rabies. He was in terrible shape and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong until too late. Since my sister touched him she had to get rabies shots.
Was the puppy’s name Old Yeller.
[Too soon?]
Because it wasn’t on a platter......................
You’re right, it’s a horrible way to die.
I think there has only been a couple of people who pulled through after the infection took hold. The body can launch an immune response, but not in time. One girl was put into an induced coma for awhile while her body was able to build up the antibodies. She had some brain damage but lived through it.
The issue was that in the Philippines, ordinary illnesses we just go to the Emergency Room for, kill people there. The government doesn't give people minimal health care, though the President defended his wife having 3,000 shoes.
A few years back, maybe more than a few, I read of a boy in Mexico surviving rabies. They treated him in a chamber filled with oxygen I think.
Some kind of chamber anyway.
My sister's patient's brain swelled so bad that it was coming out of the back of his scull at the neck. He was having seizures and when they ended he was terrified. The fear is part of it I guess which is why it used to be called hydrophobia.
This is a tragedy. A wonderful kind young woman died from doing an act of kindness. If the puppy had rabies, it is certainly dead by now as well. So sad.
I’ve told my daughters over and over, never touch a stray dog or animal.
What a tragedy.
(Did the puppy die too?)
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There’s only one way to test for rabies, so yeah.
What a bizarre leap of logic, justifying bad health care today by bringing up someone who was deposed in 1986.
“The 24-year-old Norwegian was on vacation with her pals and riding mopeds when they came across the pooch.”
Nothing else better to do...like a job... than roam the world dicking off with pals? They must have trust fund babies in Norway too.
The puppy she kept in her possession never displayed signs of rabbies?
She looks like the kind that welcomes refugees to Norway.
OK, it looks like she just played with it for a short time at the resort rather than really taking it. The title confused me.
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