bulboustadpole t1_ja6r7rl wrote
Reply to comment by rocketwidget in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader
> A tiny, sometimes unnoticeable bite can transmit rabies.
This is very much a myth and there's been little to no cases of this actually happening. If this was true there would be more than 3-5 deaths a year in a country of 330,000,000.
Rabies is literally one of the rarest and most uncommon diseases in the United States in humans.
rocketwidget t1_ja7iqu1 wrote
Please see the CDC source:
> Bat bites can be very small
Rabies is very rare in the US because of a robust anti-rabies effort including animal control and preventative shots. It certainly didn't used to be very rare in the US and it's still not very rare in other parts of the world.
For example, ~60,000 Americans get shots each year, a big part of why we keep deaths at ~3-5 each year.
Cautious-Rub t1_ja847eu wrote
You are wrong. Rabies can be transmitted if you have a small cut or wound on your hand (ie paper cut) and you come in contact with saliva that’s infected with rabies .
This is how outbreaks occur. People get complacent and start saying vaccines will give their pet autism so they don’t vaccine. Then their pet come in contact with a skunk, raccoon, feral cat, bat, etc… then the whole family gets to go through prophylactic treatment.
Just because you’ve never seen it close up; doesn’t mean it does not exist. It just means veterinary support and environmental health are doing a good job. Rabies is almost 100% fatal, all but two people have died from it, but it still ravaged their nervous systems and it was a long hard journey to speak, eat, control bowels, and walk again.
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