Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
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A disease that propagates itself by making animals want to bite other animals. I suppose rabies is the base phenomenon behind the zombie meme. It's also a good description of a large fraction of social media posts.
Part of it is that after it does its thing in the brain, it then travels to the salivary glands where it can then spread through a bite.
Case in point.
Some scholars think that the 18th century rabies epidemics shaped the vampire legend.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/04/20/rabies-seen-as-b...
Bram Stoker’s vampire characters and stories are gay, as are their heirs (Anne Rice).
Sparkling Twilight vampires are Latter-Day Saints.
Zombies and vampires existed long before these novels and films got made, but pop culture has a way of wiping out and superseding local folk culture in the modern minds of new generations.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/do...
> Beaver food flavoring doesn't actually come from the animal's anal gland but from another organ next to it, called the castor sac.
I still wouldn't try it, myself.
You're eating beaver back sac.
17 shots: 15 shots, and 2 boosters.
So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.
We went camping in France and then on to Italy. A rabid cat entered our tent in France, but we didn't know it was rabid. The authorities finally managed to track us down to an Italian camp site, no idea how they did that, but glad they did.
If any of us had a single scratch or cut we could not 100% account for, we had to have the injections.
> If any of us had a single scratch or cut we could not 100% account for, we had to have the injections.
Shades of The Last of Us…
We got them, even if we just touched the little critters.
This was in 1969, in Morocco.
I do strongly remember having to strip naked in front of an Italian doctor in Florence and be examined everywhere in great detail. Think this was about 1979.
QUOTE:
The National Rabies Management Program was established in recognition of the changing scope of rabies. The goal of the program is to prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies and eventually eliminate terrestrial rabies in the United States through an integrated program that involves the use of oral rabies vaccination targeting wild animals.
Since 1995, Wildlife Services (WS) has been working cooperatively with local, State, and Federal governments, universities and other partners to address this public health problem by distributing oral rabies vaccination (ORV) baits in targeted areas. This cooperative program targets the raccoon variant, canine variant in coyotes and a unique variant of gray fox rabies.
We don't have rabies in the UK, thankfully, and I don't think my bro got a rabies jab for his French coypu bite. Just naturally grumpy rodents, I guess.