DirigibleProtein to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 days agoIf you have been bitten by an animal badly enough to have to go to the emergency room, what bit you?message-squaremessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareIf you have been bitten by an animal badly enough to have to go to the emergency room, what bit you?DirigibleProtein to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 days agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
I’ve been bitten by a horse, snake (twice, years apart), cat, red back spider, dog (twice, weeks apart). What’s your count?
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoGot bit fishing a mouse out of the trash can at our wedding. When I sobered up the next morning I was seriously sweating about rabies. Turns out mice don’t carry it, or at least have never infected a human. Plus, despite all the woods around here, rabies is very rare in this county.
minus-squarerjthyen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoIt is rare, but not something to completely ignore as a possibility
Got bit fishing a mouse out of the trash can at our wedding. When I sobered up the next morning I was seriously sweating about rabies.
Turns out mice don’t carry it, or at least have never infected a human. Plus, despite all the woods around here, rabies is very rare in this county.
It is rare, but not something to completely ignore as a possibility