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Rabies Shots Urged for 950 Girl Scouts
Maimi Herald/AP ^
| Aug. 6, 2006
Posted on 08/06/2006 8:33:56 AM PDT by nuconvert
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posted on
08/06/2006 8:33:57 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
Cover-your-butt lawsuit protection. Likely.
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posted on
08/06/2006 8:41:53 AM PDT
by
SteveMcKing
(Wikipedia ~ the Ministry of Truth)
To: SteveMcKing
Smart preventative medicine, IMO. Rabies is nothing to take a chance with.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:14:39 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Why does Israel take border security seriously but we do not, when Islamists wish us both harm?)
To: dirtboy
WOW.
these parents should file lawsuits against the girl scout organization and the facility that let this happen--how frightening. it can take up to 9 mos for rabies to show up (i have also heard as long as 6 years) and when it does you are dead.
i thought the rule is if a child or incapacitated adult are sleeping in the same room in which a bat is found, the assumption is that they were exposed and should be treated because the bites are so tiny. i would imagine that is why the health dept is telling the parents to get shots for the kids. plus i have read you can actually get rabies from bat droppings and when bats are living in the eaves of these cabins....unreal.
the treatments are scary enough and carry their own risks.
i have had two scares with this disease in my own life and i do not envy these parents and kids.....they should be worried.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:26:01 AM PDT
by
applpie
To: nuconvert
Place your bets on how many of the 950 will have complications or side effects from the rabies vaccine.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:29:27 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: dirtboy
Yes, you are right. However in other countries, they would have cooked the bats on a skewer.
American girls will probably receive psycho-therapy for this, until they admit that they hate their fathers for sending them to Girl Scout camp. Only then will they be cured.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:31:26 AM PDT
by
SteveMcKing
(Wikipedia ~ the Ministry of Truth)
To: nuconvert
What is going on with this rabies kick? China is killing dogs by the trainload. Trying to burn off adrenaline since the Bird Flu epidemic didn't materialize?
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:33:28 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:33:42 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: nuconvert
But officials soon learned that a few girls apparently touched a bat captured by a counselor, and some girls had not used protective netting around their beds while they slept at night. The counselor caught a bat and had a bunch of girls touch it? That was bright.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:34:55 AM PDT
by
Dianna
To: nuconvert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanna_Giese
Probably good medicine. While Jeanna Giese's case is hopeful, it's unnecessary for others to go through her ordeal if they administer the vaccine now. (Giese was the first person to survive rabies without a vaccine. But she'll have lifelong motor skills issues because of it.)
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:37:04 AM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: nuconvert
Actually, I'd be much more worried about the bats catching cooties.
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:42:18 AM PDT
by
grundle
To: Bratch
I don't get it... why did you post pictures of the James Carville-Mary Matalin honeymoon?
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posted on
08/06/2006 9:45:57 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: nuconvert
Being vaccinated because they touched a *captured* bat? Asinine. For being in the same building as bats? Asinine.
Prophylactic vaccination is recommended if one handles a *dying* (sick) bat, or has physical contact with an *unprovoked* bat.
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posted on
08/06/2006 10:04:09 AM PDT
by
AngrySpud
(Behold, I am The Anti-Crust ... Anti-Hillary)
To: nuconvert
No Screens? What about WestNile or any other diseases carried by mosquitoes.
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posted on
08/06/2006 10:05:32 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(You can spit in our tacos and you can rape our dogs but, you can't take away our freedom!)
To: applpie
>>>>these parents should file lawsuits against the girl scout organization and the facility that let this happen-
File lawsuits? The girls went CAMPING. Lawsuit for what?
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posted on
08/06/2006 10:23:18 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Bratch
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posted on
08/06/2006 10:24:21 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: nuconvert
To: nuconvert
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posted on
08/06/2006 11:02:33 AM PDT
by
TaxRelief
(Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
To: Bratch
Cue Bob Hope theme song: "Fang's for the Mammeries..."
NO... wait: that looks like CLAWS!
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posted on
08/06/2006 12:25:24 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Dianna
...had a bunch of girls touch it? That was bright. But he REALLY wanted them to touch something else!
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posted on
08/06/2006 12:26:23 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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