Why were rabies vaccines given in the abdomen?

[Hellbound]

We are cross posting. I had this edit to my post ready.

Reasonable guess. It's not hard to look up though, instead of guessing.


I don't think you should dismiss proper research as just "bureaucracy", though.

I'm not really, just trying to be funny.

Now you all know why I'm a computer analyst instead of a comedian

 

[dropzone]

So what y'all are saying is that the shots were never the trip to Hell described to me in the early '60s and that myth was only used to keep me from petting stray dogs in rural Virginia? Where we had shoot to kill orders, but not in the head because they needed the brain to diagnose Fido?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

So what y'all are saying is that the shots were never the trip to Hell described to me in the early '60s and that myth was only used to keep me from petting stray dogs in rural Virginia? Where we had shoot to kill orders, but not in the head because they needed the brain to diagnose Fido?

The infection was 100% fatal. (Currently there have been a couple of survivors, still rounds off to 100%.) How was that not enough to keep you from petting stray dogs?

And it was still a lot of shots. Currently post exposure treatment is 5 injections, I believe. It's 3 intradermal pre-exposure.

 

[dropzone]

Well, yeah, there was that, but the weeks of agony getting the shots straight into your belly using a horse needle every day was an effective deterrent.

And what about saving the brain?


ETA: Gimme a break; I was seven.

 

[WhatRoughBeast]

I've never seen anything on "House" that has reflected medical reality, ever.

Now, that's not being fair. "House", if anything, reflected too much reality. As far as I can tell, when developing a House-condition, the writers would consult the medical texts and consider EVERY symptom EVER recorded for ANY patient with the condition. As you might guess, this gives a pretty wide field to work in, without being "inaccurate".

Plus, of course, there were a number of cases which I solved instantly, simply because I've read Oliver Sacks. For instance, the older woman whose libido was through the roof as a result of tertiary syphilis.

Of course, having the physicians doing all the scut work for tests was not exactly realistic, but you can't have everything.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Now, that's not being fair. "House", if anything, reflected too much reality. As far as I can tell, when developing a House-condition, the writers would consult the medical texts and consider EVERY symptom EVER recorded for ANY patient with the condition. As you might guess, this gives a pretty wide field to work in, without being "inaccurate".

Plus, of course, there were a number of cases which I solved instantly, simply because I've read Oliver Sacks. For instance, the older woman whose libido was through the roof as a result of tertiary syphilis.

Of course, having the physicians doing all the scut work for tests was not exactly realistic, but you can't have everything.

House lost me when they tried to make resident MDs take over the nurses' jobs.

 

[Tanalia]

And what about saving the brain?

Wiki: Rabies - Diagnosis

Very short version: examining brain tissue is the most reliable means of diagnosis.