New entry requirements for #dogs travelling #from Canada to the #UnitedStates could make life more difficult for people who use service or #GuideDogs, advocates fear.
Under updated guidelines to reduce the spread of #rabies announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention #CDC, a slew of new requirements for dogs crossing the border that vary based on a dog's age, country of origin & #travel history.
Anybody know whether this guy is acting rabid or not? It's 72 degrees out, he's in the shade clutching the wall breathing really rapidly and he doesn't appear scared of me. #Rabies#squirrels
I've now seen people downplaying the risk of rabies today.
So that's a thing
Rabies in domestic animals not super common in the US (60 dogs or so, 250 cats, 60 cows, 20 horses, all approximate and variable by year), but happens all around you, even if you don't know about it. Usually in bats and skunks
It is true that we don't have the reservoir of it in canines that we used to have, but it's such a serious disease that it pays to take significant precautions and to take it very seriously
Me: "Yes, some woman recently died of rabies after being bitten by a cute little puppy in India"
Student: "HEY! That happened to me! I went to a temple in India, and there were all these cute puppies everywhere, and I got bitten! I had to get a full series of rabies shots, my professor said I'd die if I didn't!"
#bat baby bat I want but do NOT pick up any bat you find. When we were kids a friend picked one up & had to take a round of #Rabies shots
Mammals all can get it so.....they get outbreaks in bat colonies all the time
Federal, state and local #health and wildlife officials said they plan to trap, test and vaccinate #raccoons in Douglas County, #Nebraska, after a stray kitten tested positive for a worrying strain of #rabies they had not seen before.
I’ve re-read this rabies paper twice, but haven’t read follow-ups yet. It may be one of the most fascinating virology papers I’ve read just for the section on cerebral lateralization.
In short, being left-handed reduced how well the body produced neutralizing antibodies after vaccination.
Which…(brain exploding).
Anyhow, seriously interesting nuances in age, sex biology, immune subversion, all kinds of interesting stuff here.
In most states – including Texas – dog owners are required to give their pets a rabies shot every three years. Health officials say the shots keep rabies – a disease with a 99% fatality rate for humans and animals – at bay.
But Marabito considers the current vaccination guidelines "excessive." She's one of many pet owners with "#canine#vaccine#hesitancy," a phrase coined in a recent study led by the Boston University School of Public Health and published in the journal Vaccine.
The study found that 53% of U.S. dog owners surveyed question whether the rabies vaccine is safe, whether it works, or whether it's useful #rabies is fatal when not treated https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/11/1205016558/canine-vaccine-hesitancy-dogs-rabies
"Once infected, victims display overall weakness and low-grade fever (6,8). In the case of zombiism, the advent of fever typically indicates the transition from human into zombie. When affected by rabies, human movement is irregular; muscle spasms and convulsions accompany numbness and loss of muscle function (6). " BRAIIINSSSS #zombies#rabies
Inside Edition coverage and videos of attacks by animals with rabies. Human beings, unfortunately, also act the same... (ps. if you compare symptoms of rabies with those of zombies, they are pretty close, actually!). All of these folks got rabies vaccines right away, so they survived. This is why you vaccinate your pets! #rabieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0EReTUyZ0
STOP CRUEL, DANGEROUS TRANSPORT IN SUMATRA’S DOG MEAT TRADE
A new Lady Freethinker (#LFT) investigation into the Sumatran #DogMeatTrade has documented apparently sick and emaciated #dogs with scars being transported 17 hours for #slaughter, getting yanked off a truck with a long snare pole, and then being shoved into burlap sacks that were tied shut.
as there would be no way of knowing if dogs are carrying a deadly #virus that could be passed to humans, such as #rabies.
The investigator also documented pregnant dogs sold for #slaughter, including one who yelped as she was yanked by the neck from the truck with a long snare pole, grabbed violently by her leg, and stuffed into a bag.
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog #OTD in 1885.
Later, people, including 4 children from the United States, went to Pasteur's laboratory to be inoculated. In 1886, he treated 350 people, of which only 1 developed rabies. The treatment's success laid the foundations for the manufacture of many other vaccines. The 1st of the Pasteur Institutes was also built on the basis of this achievement. via @wikipedia