Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

On 11/11/2024 3:38 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:10:52 -0000 (UTC), Jasen Betts
<usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:
 

On 2024-11-07, Ralph Mowery <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:

In article <sa0oij1ka6s1pfpghsar1hse7c2s7d7s54@4ax.com>, jl@glen--
canyon.com says...

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There are lots of people here, and in other countries, who think that
we have too much government. Killing the squirrel was an example.
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Of all the major crime going on in the city they go after one pet
squirrel.

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It wasn't about "crime" it was about an animal bite.
There are no non-fatal tests for rabies in humans or animals.

If you've been exposed to the rabies virus you'd have antibodies to it.
Getting a big enough blood sample to test for those antibodies isn't going to kill anybody - human or squirrel.

Squirrels almost never get rabies.

But you don't want to get bitten by one of the rare exceptions. It's a very nasty disease. Pasteur worked out that it develops slowly enough that you can vaccinate people against it if you start the process shortly after they have been bitten, but if you waited for symptoms to develop, it was too late.
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Bill Sloman, Sydeny