Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
by madaxe_again on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:27PM
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I’m arguing that risk should be managed based on logic and rationale, not emotion and fear.
To call the entirety of Europe “my locality” is, uh, very American of you.
And yes - rabies deaths from primate and dog bites are more common in undeveloped countries - but 60,000 p.a. is still a vanishingly small number compared to, say, malaria (600,000), TB (1,400,000), hep (1,100,000), diarrhoea (1,500,000), flu (650,000), schistosomiasis (200,000), and cars (1,300,000). I suppose the latter two aren’t scary, because you haven’t heard of one of them, and you use the other every day. There are bigger fish to fry.
Fortunately, dogs (and cats) are universally vaccinated against rabies in Europe, and we have no primates.
To call the entirety of Europe “my locality” is, uh, very American of you.
And yes - rabies deaths from primate and dog bites are more common in undeveloped countries - but 60,000 p.a. is still a vanishingly small number compared to, say, malaria (600,000), TB (1,400,000), hep (1,100,000), diarrhoea (1,500,000), flu (650,000), schistosomiasis (200,000), and cars (1,300,000). I suppose the latter two aren’t scary, because you haven’t heard of one of them, and you use the other every day. There are bigger fish to fry.
Fortunately, dogs (and cats) are universally vaccinated against rabies in Europe, and we have no primates.