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- From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Raccoons & pets :-(
- Message-ID: <H.eg.i3tEn7OMreM@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 06:37:24 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.200516.16061@pony.Ingres.COM>, Jon Krueger writes:
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- >
- >By the way, it's well known how painful rabies treatment is, those
- >shots to the stomach you get if you've been bitten by a rabid animal.
- >What's less well known is the treatment is not 100% effective.
- i recently got a series of rabies vaccinations(the preventive pre-exposure
- kind, since i work as a veterinary assistant in massachusetts, which has
- recently has increased cases of rabies, mostly from raccoons).
-
- they told us if someone unvaccinated gets bitten they will need a series of
- 5 shots in the rear end, and that they are nasty and painful but not as
- bad as the old stomach shots were. a vaccinated person would only need one
- or two. effectiveness was not discussed.
-
- the vaccine was bad enough. i had a worse than usual reaction, which included
- fever, aches. severe confusion, and an enormous (measured at 3x5 inches)
- hot, bright red, sore, itchy lumpy swelling on the place on my arm where
- the shot was given. 3 weeks after the 3rd and final shot, i can still feel
- two little lumps and it still itches a little.
- --
- -- little gator aka s. mudgett email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
- -- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
-