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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Nov 13, 2018 - 02:30pm PT
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Reilly, was the slug cooked? Maybe Toker is right, kind of a Typhoid Mary situation. "Rabies Reilly"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2018 - 02:40pm PT
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Yes, pmac, cooked and hot sauce was allowed. One of those giant PNW banana slugs (a good 3-4 incher) wasn’t too bad. One of the little green ones was seriously nasty, but I won the contest and, yes, alcohol was involved.
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Bargainhunter
climber
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Nov 13, 2018 - 07:29pm PT
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Pediatric medical board question:
A parent brings an infant into the ER after finding a dead bat in the child's room. The child was sleeping soundly and appears to be acting normally. A thorough head to toe exam reveals no abrasions, scratches nor puncture wounds. The entire exam is normal. What do you do?
Answer: Full course rabies vaccination
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Skeptical? Just read all the case reports of deaths from rabies on the CDC's website. Bats are featured heavily, many victims had just brief exposure e.g. finding a dead bat in their driveway and throwing it in a trashcan, or a family of bats found living in the attic or garage, etc.
I too had a bat fly into my face while mountain biking at sunset on a fire road near Kaweah's South Fork. It bounced off my teeth and split my lip. Never got the vaccine. I shoulda. Perhaps that explains my cognitive decline?
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Nov 13, 2018 - 08:03pm PT
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My bike bat collision was 15 years ago at least. Little bugger was likely healthy until smashing into my noggin at 25mph....
Funny... two bat facial collisions.... maybe it was the same bat.
I've done a bit of local amateur caving. Here caves are always wet and bats are commonplace. A bit more disconcerting is their poop and corpses that accumulate on the ground from time to time. There's some fungus here that's actually killing the bats so they are encountered far less frequently these days.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2018 - 09:37pm PT
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hey there say, Bargainhunter...
as to your quote:
Answer: Full course rabies vaccination
yes, i had read that, a few years back...
and-- if there are 'feebled' elders, that are too weak to
get around, or, get out of bed...
they did it for them, too... when bats were found in the house,
yet-- were not sure if anyone was bit...
that, and the babies...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 15, 2018 - 10:34am PT
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From a BBC article about viruses:
Back in 2017, Olival and colleagues from the EcoHealth Alliance decided to investigate where the most dangerous undiscovered pathogens are most likely to be hiding. The team examined thousands of viruses known to infect mammals, including 188 which are also known to infect humans.
One not-so-surprising finding was that the next pandemic will probably emerge from bats. No one knows why, but bats are absolutely riddled with nasty viruses. They’re known to be the source of many, many human pandemics, including Sars, which we picked up from cave-dwelling bats in China, as well as Ebola.
We are so doomed. And I’m done playing with bats. Should probably limit my exposure
to bat-sh!t crazy climbers, too.
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