thegirl44 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A new rabies vaccine was developed in the mid '70's and became the accepted treatment for rabies in the mid eighties. This vaccine can be administered sub dermal in the arm, as opposed to the old, painful stomach shots that Ozzy Osbourne liked to describe after the bat biting incident.

thegirl44 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

When I worked in the south pacific islands I saw many rabies cases and there are actually two completely different reactions to the disease; yes there is the rage filled Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days cases where the disease makes the afflicted hellbent on infecting another, because the disease KNOWS it kills it's host it becomes desperate to find a new host, but there are also victims where the messages from the brain become so rabies scrambled the muscles no longer work and they just lie there.

Paxrep (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. Rabies is nothing to laugh about

jrlalc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yup

Scrap5000 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

jrlalc, are you still alive?

SoCyurious (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What if an outbreak of rabies happened? Wouldnt the infected attack you? Itd be like Dawn of the Dead. Creepy..

73sebrougham (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i heard that getting rabies is like a bad acid trip a horrible hallucinegenic death

HelloThar9 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

If you get bitten, even if it didn't look rabid it pays to get checked out. Better the shots to the stomach than going crazy...

EmmaBeelah (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thank you for posting this.

AWAXHAROLD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i was attacked by a rabid dog, which tested positve, lucky i had my desert eagal.50