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drhodl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rabies seems kinda tame compared to everything else we’re being swamped with. We probably ALL missed hearing about it.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Rabies is not tame. If you get the vaccine for it, you’re golden (near perfect efficacy, and you can even get it shortly after contracting rabies because rabies works so slowly).
But as soon as you start showing symptoms, you’re dead. Rabies is able to cross the blood brain barrier, but the vaccine for it is not. Once you’re showing symptoms, the death rate is 100% (60k die from rabies annually, less than 50 have ever survived after showing symptoms).
KittyCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
99.99% There was that 1 girl that somehow managed to survive thanks to a 2 month induced coma.
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The Milwaukee Protocol is not effective.
The death rate rounds to 100%, not 99.99%, and it’s not even remotely close (as noted in the parentheses of my original comment).
drhodl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, but I was being a bit glib, in the context of American national insanity. There is so much else evil crap going on, which is equally fatal to rabies…caribbean boat bombings, withdrawal of food aid from starving people, ICE kidnappings to foreign violent prisons, even the “advice” your own CDC is giving now. Rabies seems fun and light…
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I figured, but I wanted to make sure anybody who was unfamiliar with how dangerous rabies is didn’t come away with the wrong idea.
drhodl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good call. I apologize if it seems I trivialized it. The fact that we so many have more things to worry about as time goes on, is a shitty reflection of our governments failing us.