Posted on 09/29/2021 1:43:55 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The first human case of rabies has been reported in Illinois since 1954, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
A Lake County resident in his 80s woke up with a bat on his neck in mid-August, the health department said. The bat was caught and tested positive for rabies.
The man was told he needed to begin post-exposure rabies treatment, but declined, according to the health department.
One month later, IDPH said the man started feeling symptoms consistent with rabies, such as neck pain, headache, difficulty controlling his arms, finger numbness and difficulty speaking.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Don’t they have a vaccine?
He declined the treatment.
“...such as neck pain, headache, difficulty controlling his arms, finger numbness and difficulty speaking.”
That’s me, every morning. Usually calls for an immediate injection of coffee.
Once the symptoms kick in it is too late. Rabies is a horrible way to go
The Rabies Vaccine
Like all vaccines, rabies vaccines contain a weakened form of the virus that is incapable of causing disease or reproducing. In response to the vaccine, your body produces antibodies that target and kill the rabies virus.
Because all human rabies vaccines are inactivated, it’s impossible to develop rabies from receiving the vaccine. Each vaccine undergoes a series of rigorous quality-control tests, which include tests of potency, toxicity, safety, and sterility.
Dosing
Typically given in a set schedule of four doses over the course of 14 days (beginning with the day of exposure), the rabies vaccine is administered by injection. In addition, most people also receive a treatment called human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) unless they have been previously vaccinated or are receiving pre-exposure rabies vaccines. Also administered by injection, HRIG is given the day the animal bite occurred.
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The difference with the rabies vaccine and Covid vaccine
1. It works
2. Everyone else does not have to take it for it to work
https://www.verywellhealth.com/rabies-treatment-4163552
Maybe he had his own treatments.
A bat on his neck?
Like a vampyre bat?
Forget about the rabies, I’m way more scared of Vampyre bats!
OMG. I knew that there was a rat problem in Chicago but bats? How did the creature get into his bedroom?
It said there was a bat colony in the man’s home.
What kind of home has a bat colony in it?
OK. Gotta lock EVERYONE down. EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET THE 4 PART RABIES VACCINE! FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHIL’REN! No vaxx, no job! C’mon, Joe XiJinBiden!
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kinda surprised it wasn’t ruled a kung flu death...
My dad had to have rabies shots when he was a boy. Apparently quite painful.
Why is this disease sprouting up?
the addams family home...
“Rabies is a horrible way to go.”
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What are you doing with that gun, Travis?
Best dog in the West...Old Yeller!
It will be. Very shortly.
I believe only one victim of full-blown rabies was ever cured. The patient was put into an artificial coma and then given nutrients intravenously, leaving the body’s immune system to fight off the virus.
There’s a whole big flock of ‘em located at First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States and also at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Not only vampire bats, but vampire rats!
He had a bat coloney? Did he live in a place with a lot of mosquitoes?
Darwin Award...
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