Rick Johnson
Anybody care to wager whether or not drinking was involved with that
incident?
Rick
Ron and Dorothy Strasser wrote:
> Mike,
> I am sure you could tell many interesting and or odd ER stories, but
> this one has introduced us to a very strange dude. I hope whatever
> profession he is involved in, I never need to deal with him.
> ron
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Murray"
> To: "'Obra'"
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Fwd: Saturday ride incident
>
>
>> If the dead animal is available the brain can be tested. This
>> service is
>> performed by the state for public health monitoring purposes. Rabies
>> vaccine
>> has an inappropriate reputation which goes back to the original vaccines
>> which were essentially pureed brain tissue from infected animals.
>> They were
>> simple to produce but required large volumes, many injections and had
>> frequent complications. Modern cell culture derived vaccine require
>> much
>> less volume of material, fewer injections and are less like to produce
>> complications. The vaccine is only 5 shots over a 1 month period,
>> not fun
>> but sure better than getting rabies.
>>
>> We had a patient coming to our place for rabies vaccine a few years
>> ago. He
>> was staying in a cabin with other people when a bat flew in. They
>> chased
>> the bat and killed it and then this genius bit the head off the bat.
>> At one
>> point during the series of injections he asked us if, now that he was
>> vaccinated, this meant he could bite the next bat and not worry about
>> it.
>> For those who might have his inclinations, the answer is "No".
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
>> Behalf Of Erik Voldengen
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 19:20 PM
>> To: Obra
>> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Fwd: Saturday ride incident
>>
>>
>> My favorite doctor says you should catch the bat to check for rabies if
>> possible, because rabies shots are still no fun, even in the 21st
>> century.
>>
>> Oh, and I got harassed all summer long by red-winged blackbirds on
>> Helvetia
>> road in 2007.
>>
>> -Erik
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/12/10 Mike Murray :
>>> I doubt that this will happen to anyone else but should it people
>>> should know that this is an indication for getting rabies vaccine. In
>>> fact, if you wake up at night with a bat in your bedroom that is also
>>> an indication for vaccination, even if you don't think that you had a
>>> bite or any actual contact with the bat. Rabies infection is
>>> uniformly fatal. There are only 2 cases of survival from active rabies
>>> infection and a handful of people who survived after developing rabies
>>> despite vaccination.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Murray
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