Posted on 07/10/2021 3:44:18 PM PDT by Libloather
A Nebraska zoo is recommending that nearly 200 campers and staff members get rabies shots after they were potentially exposed to a rabid bat earlier this month.
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium said that one of the 186 people participating in an overnight campout event at the facility on July 4 woke up to a wild bat flying around her head, according to The Associated Press.
While an emergency medical official at the zoo said there were no bites or scratches found on the camper, the zoo located seven wild bats in the aquarium, one of which tested positive for rabies.
The AP reported that all of the seven bats found were euthanized.
The zoo is now paying for campers to get rabies shots, and is also offering refunds for their participation in the camping events.
According to local ABC affiliate KETV, the zoo recommended that the guests get rabies shots based on guidance from both the Nebraska State Veterinarian and the Nebraska Department of Health.
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Did it also carry five Kung Flu variants ?
Mandatory rabies vaccines for everybody!
I hope no one ate it.
Wow 200 people?! His jaw must be killin him
Don’t have to get bit to get rabies.
~~Rabies virus is transmitted through direct contact (such as through broken skin or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, or mouth) with saliva or brain/nervous system tissue from an infected animal.~~
Shurly 200 people werent exposed to this virus. Is this guy related to Fauci in any way? Biologically, perhaps?
This is why rabies is such a freak out of a disease. It is stupidly contagious. Not just bites, but exposure to saliva or breath moisture, blood, any other fluids, and not just directly from the infected animal, but things it has touched or dropped liquid on. You can get the virus through scratches, cuts or abrasions.
The bottom line is that you may not be able to tell, so you have to assume infection. Fortunately, the old treatment that was agonizingly painful, involving half a dozen injections to the muscles surrounding the stomach, has been changed to a more ordinary and far less painful series.
It used to be that a primary duty of policemen was to kill rabid animals, mostly dogs, a big reason for them to be armed.
Proof it came from Nebraska
Or not.
Bats are ‘freakish’ in that they don’t die from diseases but can be serious vectors. That being said, they can be wonderful in your back yard since they eat several hundred mosquitos a night per bat (and mosquitos are also vectors of disease only hard to see)
Well, Duuhhh!
Were any of them bit?
If not, forget it.
What, weren’t all the people wearing masks? They’d have been perfectly safe against any disease if they had only worn their masks.
They can’t tell if someone has been exposed or not until they are symptomatic or a year has passed.
The virus creeps slowly up the nervous system without provoking an immune response until it reaches the brain.
A rabid animal is driven to bite; bat bites are indetectable.
There’s a reasonable chance that bat bit someone, and you can’t tell for sure until it is too late.
Rabid bat?
Why was Hillary visiting a Nebraska zoo?
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