rabies

//Didn't know whether here or the medicine subform was more appropriate. Any Mods feel free to move if you consider this the wrong place// "A 6-year-old Florida boy fighting rabies has died, his father said Sunday. Ryker Roque was being kept under anesthesia in an Orlando hospital in a...

Big news story today...A recent human death from rabies in Maryland has now been linked to a kidney transplant received a year and a half ago from a donor with undiagnosed rabies! According to CNN online article "CDC: Man Died of Rabies From Kidney Transplant," 3 other people who also received...

Hi everyone, I was talking to my wife, and I mentioned the old horrors of the rabies injections in ones abdomen. She (works in an ER) wondered why the hell you would ever inject anything into someone's abdomen. The muscle layer is relatively thin, so it's a bad choice for intra-muscular...

Interesting story, this. The general drift of it is that she presented with symptoms too advanced for the normal vaccination to work. The doctors induced coma and administered other drugs (they're not saying which ones until it's written up) to protect her brain and nervous system. After a week...

Another report from CDC. Though currently rare that humans die from rabies in the U.S., this points out the importance that we all vaccinate our pets against rabies. Sadly, anti-vac kooks are driving new pet owners away from even these vitally important vaccines. us human rabies death