bulboustadpole t1_ja6s8my wrote
Reply to comment by ILuvMemes4Breakfast 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
Unless you've been bitten by an animal known to carry rabies there's no need. The fear mongering around rabies is absolutely insane.
The US is one of the largest countries in the world and often the rabies vaccine isn't covered by health plans.
You know how many people die per year in the US due to rabies?
3-5 people. You're literally more likely to be killed by lightning or win the mega millions jackpot than die to rabies.
Hutch25 t1_ja8oz7c wrote
That’s the thing. People don’t get bit by anything that would carry rabies very often. And in an age of countless antibiotics odds are you clean it out before anything happens anyways like hydrogen peroxide which is very common in many households. Got Lysol wipes in your house? Well those work against rabies.
Also, most scavenger animals have a defence against it. Especially the most common stereotypical ones.
Most scavengers have characteristics which defend against it like:
Raccoons being picky eaters
Vultures being able to kill the virus with their stomachs
Most bats exclusively eat bugs or mice, and when bats do get infected they are often thrown out of their packs to starve to death, or killed on the spot.
Just about everyone vaccinates their pets
And weirdly enough mice and rats themselves don’t even get infected very often, they are very good at picking good food to eat in most situations.
Most animals a human will ever meet wouldn’t get infected, and when they do most people know to stay away and or are vaccinated.
If it was as dangerous to us as some people think, we would be all dead by now. But because it’s so rare to catch we can just kinda live our lives.
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