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Aylee -> RE: The Holly and Potty Show (8/21/2010 12:05:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Aylee, doesn't she need the vaccinations before any symptoms if you can't find the animal? Or has that changed over the years?
Celeste,
Yes. I had the other half check her over carefully and there was a spot that could have been a bite. She was taken to the ER and the doctors could not conclusively state that it was an animal bite and if it was that it was a bat bite. She was given the first three shots (One at the wound site and one in each leg). She will have another today, another in 7 days, and another in 14 days after that.
By the time that rabies symptoms show up it is way too late.
Wild bats only have a 1% chance of carrying rabies, but it is still not something that you want to gamble on.
Finding the bat, freezing it, and taking it to the Health Department is for the CDC. If it did/does have rabies, the CDC needs to be notified.
The bat had been in the house for at least 24 hours. (Yes everything has had the bleach-water treatment). The other half thought that it must be some bug that the cat kept trying to smack underneath the soda fridge. As it turns out, it was not a bug.
Partly I made the comment because I wanted to see Holly go into her nurse-panic mode. [:)]
Of course this has all been very fun for me to do almost 2000 miles away. [8|] Oh. . . and this is the first time that the other half has had to be the one holding her for shots (or bood draw). He said that he was crying a bit as well. [X(]
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