• 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    The indication for testing according the CDC is a bite.

    The rabies test is cheap. Could have tested the kid or the bat, but again why would they do it if there’s no indication for exposure. This was the first case in the province of someone being infected with rabies inside their own home since 1967.

    When you hear hoofbeats you don’t think it’s zebras.

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          13 days ago

          Rabies works by slowly working its way towards your nervous system brain. Its pretty slow and not really active during this time and it isnt detectable at this stage. Once it hits your nervous system though it screams into overdrive and its basically fatal from that point on. That’s what makes rabies so scary.