Just plain stupid, Knowing his son was in contact with the bat. And then stop treatment because the son was afraid of the needle. Who is the winner in stupidity. WOW. Just WOW.
Can't watch the video from my place. Are they saying if they plan to prosecute the parents? Involuntary manslaughter or something? Mind you, not to punish the the dad in the first place. Punishment can't set things right and that's not what it's for - but in this case and all other cases it should act hopefully as a deterrent for other stupid people.
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#4401486 - 01/23/1802:14 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
When I was a child we had a pet cat who was in heat. I was 7 or 8. One day, while playing outside, I noticed a "strange" cat on top of my cat and it was biting her on the back of the neck. I didn't know what was going on so I went over and tried to pull the stranger cat off of mine and it bit me on the chin. My parents took me to the doctor right away and he said I would have to have rabies shots unless we positively identified the unknown cat. The newspaper had a story about it and we had friends going door to door in our neighborhood. I was within two days of having to undergo rabies shots before we found out the stranger cat was a neighbor's cat and vaccinated. You don't take chances.
If one gets bit by a cat, one should see a doctor. There is nasty stuff in the mouth of cats besides rabies.
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#4401493 - 01/23/1803:17 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
I think watching his own child die is enough a prison sentence to last a lifetime. Perhaps, seeing how distraught the father is, aught to turn this into a message he shares with the public on the dangers of wild animal bites. At most, if a prosecutor were to seek action, mandatory community service is in order. Unfortunately it can't be made a Federal issue to induce speaking around the country. Ignorance can't be legislated or punished away. But words of the fallen may stick to the hearts of the ignorant, giving them at least a shred more of knowledge that may one day help save a life.
Sad, very very sad.
#4401494 - 01/23/1803:28 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Oct 1999 Posts: 15,786Haggart
I Fought Diablo
I didn't post this story just because it's a sad story .... you can find plenty of those every morning. There was a teenager here in our area some 12 years ago that had found a dead bat in his room one morning. He had left his window open before he went to sleep. No sign of any bites and he had told his parents about it. The parents removed the dead bat from the house and that was that. Their son died of rabies some weeks later.
I post this stuff in the hopes that anyone here who isn't aware of the dangers will read it and it might save someone's life one day
2006 An Humble High School sophomore died this afternoon, eight days after being hospitalized for a rabies infection believed to have been caused by a bat.
Zach Jones died about 4:55 p.m., according to Texas Children's Hospital, where he had been in an induced coma for several days. "According to family and doctors, Jones became ill last Thursday, several weeks after awaking from a nap and finding a bat in his bedroom. The boy may not have realized he had been bitten and the family did not seek medical attention afterward. Health experts say that because bats' teeth are so small and sharp, a person could be bitten and not realize it. Officials with Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have urged anyone who comes in physical contact with a bat to seek medical attention immediately"
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#4401561 - 01/23/1807:31 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
I read recently that 1 in 6 bats in America have the Rabies virus.
I used to be terrified growing up as the Channel Tunnel to France was being built and so many horror stories were being told about if Rabies gets in the UK. Scare mongering, but as a kid watching the news I was up at night worrying.
The below video I always found unsettling, it is pretty macabre so don't watch if sensitive.
#4401609 - 01/23/1810:35 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
Joined: Oct 1999 Posts: 15,786Haggart
I Fought Diablo
The reason they place them in a comatose state is to reduce swelling on the brain. The theory is, if the patient can live long enough for their immune system to fight off the virus, the coma may reduce the chances of their brain being damaged.
#4401686 - 01/24/1806:34 PMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Mr_Blastman]
Joined: Oct 1999 Posts: 15,786Haggart
I Fought Diablo
wow that's amazing she survived but this ...."or that being bitten in a site far from the brain provided her immune system sufficient time to fight the virus" seems likely as the doctors said in perhaps giving her body the time in needed but of course not something that can be depended upon of course as there are other factors as well as mentioned
"everything lives by a law, a central balance sustains all"
#4401749 - 01/25/1802:15 AMRe: 6 Yr Old Boy Is Bitten By Rabid Bat And Doesn't Want A Shot So Dad Doesn't Take Him to ER
[Re: Haggart]
The thing is though. If you look at the statistics doing the milwaukee protocol drastically increases your odds of survival compared to not. The odds dont improve THAT much as you are still like 1 in 5 to survive... but thats so much higher than not doing anything.
The rabies virus crawls in the direction of the brain at 3 inches per day. So depending upon where you're bitten, you may have a week or a few hours.
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