Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐

drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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  • KittyCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    99.99% There was that 1 girl that somehow managed to survive thanks to a 2 month induced coma.

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    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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  • drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • drhodl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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