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To: cookcounty
Maybe because they are going into Africa or someplace, where rabies is quite prevalent?

"In many parts of the world where vaccinations for pets and postexposure treatment for people are not available, rabies remains a serious health threat for animals and for humans. Rabies kills more than 35,000 people every year, mostly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. "
3,006 posted on 03/06/2004 9:48:41 PM PST by FairOpinion ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." --- G. W. Bush)
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To: FairOpinion
With all this talk of dog diseases, I thought I'd post this. About 11 years ago, I contracted something, unknown to me what it was but I was Extremely sick. I stayed sick to my stomach (very) for about 3 months, all that went down good was water. I had flu like symptoms the whole time. I saw two different doctors, one told me I had the flu, get rest and drink fluids, the other told me I had contracted a bug in the water, on my trip to Anchorage and gave me one big pill to cure me.

It didn't. After about three months of losing weight, not eating and flu like symptoms I began to develop a fever, it got worse over the next week. So I went to the hospital. I was also about 4 months pregnant, so they did a sonogram. Told me nothing was wrong with me and sent me home. That night I started hemorrhaging (sp?) very badly, didn't go back to the hospital for many hours though.

By the next morning my fever was very high, chills and still bleeding profusely. I went to the hospital again, had a miscarriage and a fever of 107. I had lost all my peripheral vision and my heart rate was 145 laying down. Two doctors were discussing what could be wrong with me and they were talking about some dog disease I had heard of before but can't remember which one to save my life, possibly parvo or distemper because I know of those. All I know is I was SHOCKEd to hear them say that. A little while later I was unconscious and stayed out for two days. I know they didn't say rabies though.

Just thought I'd post this in case you guys know of another one. Whatever got me was terrible. They tried to talk me into a blood transfusion and warned me about the risks involved with that, when I said no thanks, they said I'd have to stay in the hospital longer then to get my blood back up. A week after I went home the doc called me and said that there was something growing in my blood culture. They didn't know what it was either. I never did find out. But apparently I'm ok now. FWIW.

3,051 posted on 03/07/2004 10:37:15 AM PST by knak
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