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

guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  erm akchually 99.9999% fatal

  Jeanna Giese survived without the vaccine due to an experimental treatment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#After_onset

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Even that case is highly contested as to what happened. It’s often debated that she might not have had rabies to begin with.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s actually been around 20 known rabies survivors. It’s a lot more survivable than you think! Of course 20x1 is still only 20, so I’ll still avoid petting any raccoons

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So It’s probably safe to say that even in that case there might not have been a correlation?

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes.

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