Flu shot

So there is in a tiny proportion of bats. RCO does need the gloves.

It's the most horrible-sounding disease. I suspect it may have been part of the inspiration for zombie / mass-infection stories.

 

It's what I'm here for.

 

But funny.

 

I wonder why the inoculation has to be injected into one's arm. I asked one time, and was told it has to be. I'd prefer it be in my gluteus muscle. Sometimes it can make my arm a little achy afterwards.

 

From doctors I've spoken to, it's just a question of accessibility and convenience. It's a lot quicker, easier and less embarrassing for someone to roll their sleeves up than to take their trousers down.

 

i thought there was a treatment for rabies?

 

raccoons are the biggest problem around here, i doubt many people try to pet them.

someone died in 2012 in massachusetts from rabies for the first time since 1935. it was a bat.

 

Kinda of a strange thread. Two things I would like to rant about -- effectiveness of the childhood vaccines is one of them

I had my first tetanus shot in my early 20's after my hot-headed Dutch girlfriend bit me (no, not there!)

Been having them every 10 years ever since.

When my son was around 10, he got whooping cough -- how did I know -- I had it when I was a kid. Indeed, other than polio and diptheria, there was not a childhood disease I missed -- I had Chicken pox, mumps, measles (both kinds), etc. I had the sugar cube polio vaccine when I was very small, otherwise, I probably would have had polio....my dad DID have polio when he was a kid.

So, son with whooping cough. Local doctor denies it is whooping cough. He points to my son's vaccine records and shows he was fully vaccinated against the disease...I don't care. I know what I know....but can't convince the doctor. A bit later, younger daughter comes down with it. I did not bother taking her in....

A few months later, big splash in the news -- hmmm.....whooping cough vaccine seems to "wear off."

Same for the Chicken pox vaccine if I remember correctly.

And, as for shingles, you do not need to be old to get. My wife (Swedish heritage this time -- I like the Nordic look), got a horrible case when she was around 26 years old.

Anyway, vaccines are great. I just do not trust them to be a solid prevention measure.

I do know that we purposely exposed our kids to chicken pox (that was --is?-) a thing people did. So I know they are immune to that. They are now immune to whooping cough. The rest....????

 

We had some good urban wildlife excitement here this morning.

Wallaby hops along Sydney Harbour Bridge, surprising early morning motorists - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

@tochatihu , if you want to see the video, you might be able to get it in the ABC link.

This is about 2km from our house. I've never seen a wallaby round here: you see them in the countryside all the time, but not in the city.

 

That's still the thing in Britain.

 

cdc says 1-3 rabies cases reported in u.s. per year.