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Death of a Mexican immigrant by rabies from a vampire bat reported
A teenager from Mexico became the first person in the United States to die after being bitten by a vampire bat and infected with rabies, US health authorities said on Thursday. The CDC said this was an unusually aggressive form of rabies, killing in 15 days, compared to a median of 89 days in other US bat rabies cases. The CDC warned that climate change may worsen the spread of vampire bats & diseases they may carry. The horror! It would be preferable to contract your own case of rabies from regular bats in a cooler climate. Adding the 'vampire' and 'climate change' label makes this a particularly unspeakable, unimaginably horrible, and impregnable fate! Seriously, basics on rabies from CDC: Rabies in humans is rare in the United States. There are usually only one or two human cases per year. But the most common source of human rabies in the United States is from bats. For example, among the 19 naturally acquired cases of rabies in humans in the United States from 1997-2006, 17 were associated with bats. 3 young men who died of bat rabies had no known encounters with bats. 2 victims were children who died after casual encounters with bats in their bedrooms with no definite bite history. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-12 |
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