This always puzzled me. Why don’t humans act much more aggressive or crazed like its often depicted with animals. Afaik there’s 2 types of rabies, “dumb” and “furious” so my question is more towards the 2nd type. For example, we never hear of rabies causing a human to accidentally bite another human so why is that?
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Rabies aren’t the only diseases wild mice can carry. Definitely get yourself checked out next time!
My neighbor was a maintenance man at an apartment complex and was bitten while emptying mouse traps. He was infected with a virus that caused some kind of lymphatic disease that developed into viral meningitis. He wound up spending months in hospitals and rehab and has permanent brain damage and disability. It was treatable if he had gone to the Dr earlier but healthcare is expensive and hard to access so he decided to wait and see if it’d pass.
Ditto for all animals. A guy from out of town was here for work one time and he tried to pet a cute stray cat he saw hanging out next door. I ended up being the designated local chaperone to take him and his dumb purple sausage finger to the hospital at 2 AM that night.
Mice have been known to spread plague even in recent times, for example. Fortunately, it’s treatable with antibiotics.
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That’s kind of a “no duh” statement. Everybody knows fleas transmit it. The point is that it’s still around.
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I was actually thinking of Oregon. When I lived there a few years back, there were a couple of cases of people who came down with plague after handling wild mice (because of the fleas, obviously, but that should be able to go without saying).
Hantivirus, to my knowledge, can happen anywhere but is more prevalent in the American west, including southwest.
You can get Hantavirus from their dried urine, saliva, and feces though
I thought it was the beams from the eyes of sick people that spread it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
Oh no, we’re all just more concerned about affording to survive, and can’t be bothered to remember a detail about a disease from hundreds of years ago that is no longer a threat whatsoever.
What do you mean checked out? The only checking out you can get for a rat bite is wound care and a rabies shot. Sometimes antibiotics depending on the wound (not because rat, but because bite).
I mean that’s the thing though, that rabies shot and antibiotics is a hell of a lot better than doing nothing, and if you do end up infected, improve your outlook a shit ton.
The UK is officially free from terrestrial rabies.
Which when you look into it more, means “The UK has rabid bats”. Hopefully not Seagulls or Pigeons, or we’re all screwed.
There was a case of a rabid fox coming through the channel tunnel. Caught though.