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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“The puppy she kept in her possession never displayed signs of rabbies?”
No rabies shots in Philippines?
bummer
bttt
Why didn’t she take the rabies shots>
And she worked at a hospital!
It’s a very unfortunate story, but it sounds like she didn’t really take in the dog like the first few sentences suggest. They bathed and played with it at their resort and it bit and scratched everyone who played it with! It says she treated her wounds, but apparently getting the appropriate shots never crossed her mind.
Sad, but quite foolish.
OK, it gets even worse. She studied microbiology and worked in the hospital’s lab. There is no way she had never heard about rabies.
I’m not blaming her, but her life could have been spared if she got shots after the incident.
I traveled internationally for more than 40 years. You learn very quickly that you never, ever mess with stray animals. I even started to get the Rabies shots but found out even if you have them you need to get them again if you are bitten so it didn’t seem like it was worth it.
People’s unfortunate ignorance leads to this kind of tragedy. Just like the idiots who want their picture taken with the Bison in Yellowstone.
Is it ignorance or just a sense of invincibility that borders on stupidity? When I went to Yellowstone, they were handing out warning flyers about the bison and the danger of taking pictures to everyone that entered. Despite that, there were tons of people getting out of their vehicles to get a close pic. Sure enough, a bison charged one of the fools, but fortunately for the fool, no contact was made.
By time the symptoms manifest, death is certain.
Marcos was President when ... 1980s?
And nothing has changed since then.
And it will never change.
It's a Third/Fourth World country.
That's why nothing changes -- people there don't
care about changing anything; roads, health care,
sewage systems, fresh water etc. You know, all the
things that make life nice in modern America, Europe etc.
I had to get rabies shots when I was about 10. I also had to get tetanus shots and snake anti-venom for the water moccasin that bit me.
My understanding was the rabies shots were very painful. My step grandfather had to take them and after a while stopped because they were so painful.
This would have been over 50 years ago so maybe they are better now.
They are less painful now——-I had them in 2001.
What an idea!, A better photo op than swimming in the pond just feet from the Yosemite waterfall over the 1000ft shear cliff, would be to have a Yellowstone Bison in the photo with it! (Yosemite, Yellowstone, ...what's the difference....) /s
It’s called socialism. My wife has a cousin in the Netherlands who spends her time traveling through India and other 3rd world locales. No job, but no trust fund either.
No good deed...
That’s exactly what I thought
That’s Korea.
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