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Canadian boy, 11, dies of rabies after waking to bat on his face

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c982m1m95q9o
11•ranit•1h ago

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tuwtuwtuwtuw•21m ago
Horrific. Poor family.
raverbashing•19m ago
> Any direct human contact with a bat is an indication for rabies postexposure prophylaxi - medical treatment given immediately after potential exposure to a rabid animal.

Yes, this is the correct take here

This is one of those things that will kill you and it will hurt the whole time you're dying

Though on the good side it does away with antivaxxers pretty quickly

WesolyKubeczek•17m ago
Unfortunately, antivaxxers mostly go unharmed while their children suffer.
dinkblam•16m ago
> while their children suffer

and (if there are too many of them) the rest of society

jongjong•4m ago
I'm not an antivaxxer but a vax-minimalist.

Whether I get a vaccine or not depends on the vibes it gives off...

I didn't get COVID shot because I felt pressured into it and I was like; "You calling me a super-spreader? Girl! I'm gonna show you super-spreader!"

Torn•18m ago
This is awful, but why is this on hacker news
rob74•15m ago
To raise awareness?
clcaev•11m ago
It's a great demonstration of how public health communication fails: the most important part is at the tail of the article, below two advertisements, and it's about as obscure as one could write it:

Any direct human contact with a bat is an indication for rabies postexposure prophylaxi - medical treatment given immediately after potential exposure to a rabid animal.

cogman10•17m ago
Sad, but hopefully this tragedy informs someone about rabies in bats.

Bats are the number one carrier of rabies and their tiny bites are really easy to miss. If you touch a wild bat, you need to go to the hospital.

rob74•16m ago
> Any direct human contact with a bat is an indication for rabies postexposure prophylaxi - medical treatment given immediately after potential exposure to a rabid animal.

This phrase is unnecessarily complicated, I expect something easier to understand from the BBC. It can't be stressed often enough: if there's even the slightest suspicion that someone has been bitten, scratched etc. by any wild animal or even "just" a feral cat/dog, get them a rabies vaccine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine) immediately. Maybe the term "prophylaxi" (shouldn't it be prophylaxis?) is preferred nowadays because of the unnecessary controversies over vaccines, but I won't mince words here...

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