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Old 01-16-2018, 10:54 PM
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Default Sad news out of Florida

Just read of a little 6 year old boy in Florida who died of rabies after being scratched (bitten?) by a bat. He had no post exposure prophylaxis, and when he got sick (within weeks) the doctors tried the Milwaukee protocol, but it failed. Prayers go out for the family. How do you ever come to terms with something like that? The article went on to state that 35,000-40,000 people in the United States receive the post exposure prophylaxis each year. Even though rabies deaths have become rare, I think there still needs to be way more public health education regarding rabies. These parents obviously had no idea how serious the risk.
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