The Origin of the Rabies Vaccine

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  @cellgrrl · 3 years ago

  I am a nurse. Back around year 2000 I was working in an urgent care clinic   A patient came in requesting that someone give her the rabies post-bite treatment as she had been bitten by a strange dog. She acquired from the state all needed vaccine supplies but found out that no one locally would administer it to her. Not even the ER.  Not wanting to make a long distance trip to our state public health dept., eventually she ended up in our clinic. No one, including myself had ever given it in our entire careers. No other nurse would do it (it was complicated and legal liability was questionable), so I said I would do it after reviewing her materials.  The treatment required my study of her materials, doing a little bit of math, and injecting immune globulin around her wound and a calculated dose IM. She also got a rabies vaccine. I forgot all the details but it required a few more visits. I will say it was nothing like the horror stories we have heard about in the past with the injections into the abdomen. It simply wasn't really anything to fear, except finding a person willing to give it which was ridiculous. I found the experience educational and fulfilling and am so glad that I agree to do it.

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• JO

  @Joy-TheLazyCatLady2 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I was bitten by a feral kitten. The ER doctor recommended the rabies vaccines. He said, "Do I think you will get rabies? No. Do I want to take that chance? No."  So I did it. It's not so bad. Better than a painful death.

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• XK

  @xkguy · 3 years ago

  I'm a retired physician. I really wish these vids were around while I was in med school. Very few of my professors were such good story tellers.

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• NA

  @natetheavali · 1 year ago

  I think anyone here with a brain will agree with me when I say: Thank you, Louis Pasteur. You saved more lives than you ever got credit for.

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• MK

  @MK-jf9re · 3 years ago

  My dad was a Marine in the Korean War. Being a dog lover he tried sharing his food with a dog and then got bt by it and they realized it was probably rabid. They had a plane fly to the nearest country that had the vaccine, thankfully making it back in time to save my dad.

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  @MogamiKyoko13 · 3 years ago

  If you think about it, a lot of the various humans-to-monsters myths involve being bitten by the monster. Rabies is probably an inspiration for many of them all around the world.

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• DA

  @Davidbirdman101 · 3 years ago

  When I was a kid I was going outside to play when my mother snatched me back in the house and slammed the door. She said, that dog has rabies!<br>I looked out and there was a poor old dog standing in the street tossing his head side to side and thick strands of salvia was flying through the air. He was growling and shaking and it looked terrifying to me.<br>My mom called the police and soon a cop came and parked near the dog, he got out and carefully got close enough to shoot the dog in the head. I was about 6 years old and the experience never left my mind.

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• BE

  @bexica5676 · 3 years ago

  I’m rabies vaccinated due to my work (vet med). It is a horrifying disease. I can’t tell you how many people have asked if we can test their animal for rabies…while they’re alive. Yes, ma’am we can test, but it involves removing their head, so you probably want to hold off on that for now.

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• JE

  @jessicaduncan9309 · 10 months ago

  I was mauled by a rabid dog that I was training. He had no discernible symptoms . He had already been through the 90 day quarantine and my vet loved him. He drooled a little extra when he was getting his check up. We commented, but we were thinking that it was just stressed in the clinic. He was from the Western villages in Alaska. My kid wanted me to save him. He was feral. We didn’t have rabies vax in the state, and we had an issue with Animal Control. They wanted to keep him! We got him cops and a lawyer. They immediately sent him up to the experts, and it was, indeed, full blown fury stage. It was awful. Poor guy 😢

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• DI

  @dianelipson5420 · 3 years ago

  I genuinely think this was less about ease and more about the pure horror of the disease. &nbsp;It’s turned people mad and frenzied. And it turned our best friends into our worst enemies against their will. And because kids love dogs, it attacked more children. It is possibly the most dreaded disease in all of history.

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• CH

  @childofcascadia · 3 years ago

  I wanted to find out if rabid people bit others so I started researching it.<br><br>That sent me down a crazy rabbit hole. Rabies is a horrible, horrible illness. <br><br>The answer- rabid people dont generally bite people. They can get aggressive and hit people though. Rabid very young kids might bite though.

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• AD

  @adamcastelli9262 · 3 years ago

  SCENE: it is the year 1880 and LOUIS PASTEUR walks into a RABID DOG STORE.

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