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A bat flew into my face
2007-06-20, 9:58 PM #1
Monday night I went out for a run in my neighborhood. About a block down the street a bat flew out of a tree straight into my face and then flew on. It was incredibly fast and I had no time to react until it was gone. I felt a slap on the side of my face from its leathery wings.

Shaken up I ran back home and scrubbed my face and shoulder with soap and water, knowing that that is the first thing to do when faced with possible exposure to rabies. Looking at the mirror and seeing no mark, I figured everything is okay, and went out to run again.

Last night (2 days later) I started getting kind of worried. You think I should go get a checkup?
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2007-06-20, 9:59 PM #2
If you are frothing at the mouth, then yes, seek help.
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2007-06-20, 10:14 PM #3
it wouldn't hurt to go to a walk-in and just double check. if anything it will put your mind at ease
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2007-06-20, 10:17 PM #4
Do you have bite marks on your neck?
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2007-06-20, 10:23 PM #5
I can see that this concern is driving you batty!

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2007-06-20, 10:27 PM #6
Go just for piece of mind. Rabies does take a while to develop, let's just say you don't want to wait to develop symptoms to get it checked out.
2007-06-20, 10:28 PM #7
I think you'd know if you had rabies ....
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2007-06-20, 10:32 PM #8
Originally posted by Freelancer:
I think you'd know if you had rabies ....


The incubation time ranges from weeks to years dude. You wouldn't know for a while, and you want to develop immunity via vaccination beforehand.
2007-06-20, 10:33 PM #9
Wouldn't it have to bite you to get rabies? It sounds like the little ****er just planned a poor trajectory and flew into his head.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2007-06-20, 10:34 PM #10
Originally posted by Wikipedia:
There are only six recorded cases of a person surviving rabies after the onset of symptoms.

:eek:
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2007-06-20, 10:36 PM #11
Originally posted by Emon:
Wouldn't it have to bite you to get rabies? It sounds like the little ****er just planned a poor trajectory and flew into his head.


Yeah, never hurts to be safe rather than sorry though. I mean, I don't know the guy, maybe he could miss a bite. He did do the best thing and wash the area, and that should take care of it, but there's always the odd .000001% chance.

Actually, most likely the docs will send him home without anything. However, he seems pretty stressed about this as well, so why not? And maybe he is missing something... I know it sounds stupid, but work with people long enough and your threshold of obviousness kinda gets changed.

Edit: God damn, my books are behind wikipedia in some instances; that's both angering and sad in a way:

Quote:
The most widely distributed reservoir of rabies in the United States, however, and the source of most human cases in the U.S., are bats. Nineteen of the twenty-two human rabies cases documented in the United States between 1980 and 1997 have been identified genetically as bat rabies. In many cases, victims are not even aware of having been bitten by a bat, assuming that a small puncture wound found after the fact was the bite of an insect or spider; in some cases, no wound at all can be found, leading to the hypothesis that in some cases the virus can be contracted via inhaling airborne aerosols from the vicinity of a bat or bats.


It was shuffled in my notes though as well, anyway. There's some debate though as penetration from the lungs is very different from a bite and would require vastly different virulence factors... regardless, again I say get it checked out.
2007-06-20, 11:26 PM #12
Hmm. Well I went to a vet's clinic down the street and she said if I didn't feel a bite and I washed the area, I should have nothing to worry about.

Damn the Internet with its stupid frightening facts.
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2007-06-21, 12:15 AM #13
1 case of human rabies in the U.S. per year. That's not frightening at all. It's a relief. You have a higher chance of dying from just about anything else, except maybe an asteroid.
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2007-06-21, 12:15 AM #14
I've never encountered a bat.
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2007-06-21, 12:39 AM #15
There are a few bats around where I live in Tel Aviv, you barely ever see them except late at night fluttering from treetop to treetop (most trees are over 40 feet tall). So it seemed kind of odd that one would fly down from a tree straight into my face when I was the only one on the sidewalk. But anyway...
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2007-06-21, 12:56 AM #16
Maybe the bat itself was sick enough not to know what it was doing.
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2007-06-21, 4:08 AM #17
You see them all the time in Spain, and quite a few on the Norfolk Broads in England. Not in Liverpool, though.
2007-06-21, 4:14 AM #18
I request fardreamer's user title to be changed to Batface .
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2007-06-21, 4:25 AM #19
when you die of rabies can I have your stuff?
2007-06-21, 4:30 AM #20
If you were anywhere near a watersource like a stream or pond it was probably flying around quite low trying to catch the insects that fly just above it.
2007-06-21, 4:30 AM #21
Originally posted by Jep:
I request fardreamer's user title to be changed to Batface .


DENI---- granted :hist101:
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2007-06-21, 4:50 AM #22
Originally posted by Recusant:
If you were anywhere near a watersource like a stream or pond...


There are streams and ponds in Israel?
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2007-06-21, 5:07 AM #23
Originally posted by MBeggar:
DENI---- granted :hist101:


You win. :awesome:
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2007-06-21, 5:22 AM #24
Originally posted by lassev:
There are streams and ponds in Israel?

He lives in Israel?
nope.
2007-06-21, 5:37 AM #25
1. Yes I live in Israel
2. Yes there are streams and pods in Israel, it's not only desert you know
3. I think there's a drinking fountain right about where it hit me
4. I can live with BATFACE but does it have to be in red? :P
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2007-06-21, 5:49 AM #26
For BLOOD!
nope.
2007-06-21, 6:00 AM #27
Originally posted by Fardreamer:
1. Yes I live in Israel
2. Yes there are streams and pods in Israel, it's not only desert you know
3. I think there's a drinking fountain right about where it hit me
4. I can live with BATFACE but does it have to be in red? :P


Quit crying, I was stuck with Pee-pee socks as my title because of you. :P

Or was it deserpike...
...
...

:awesome:
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2007-06-21, 8:29 AM #28
Odd, there was an article in todays newspaper about rabies and bats. Said that bat bites aren't always felt...

Get a check up you rabid freak! ;)
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2007-06-21, 9:02 AM #29
I'd buy yourself a gun if I were you. If you start becoming sensitive to the daylight, if you start becoming thirsty regardless of much you've had to drink -- then I suggest you take that gun and use it on yourself. Better that, than the alternative.
2007-06-21, 9:14 AM #30
Can you get banned for rabid posting?
2007-06-21, 9:22 AM #31
*You have contracted polymorphic hemophilia*
2007-06-21, 9:28 AM #32
Better drink a cure disease potion.
2007-06-21, 9:33 AM #33
Hm, pretty sure bats just don't fly into people. They aren't blind, and they can echolocate too... weird. Maybe you scared it.
2007-06-21, 9:34 AM #34
Thanks, like I'm not stressed out enough already. :tinfoil:
Dreams of a dreamer from afar to a fardreamer.
2007-06-21, 9:38 AM #35
Maybe it was trying to warn you? Like if you didn't slow down for that bat, an anaconda was going to constrict you.
2007-06-21, 11:15 AM #36
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
Maybe it was trying to warn you? Like if you didn't slow down for that bat, an anaconda was going to constrict you.


that does sound like the most likely scenario... yes.
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2007-06-21, 11:18 AM #37
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
*You have contracted polymorphic hemophilia*


Polymorphic?

Maybe porphyric hemophilia.
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2007-06-21, 11:49 AM #38
Rabies is transferred through infected saliva. So as long as it didn't bite you or the Bat's saliva didn't come into contact with an existing wound, You'll be fine.
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2007-06-21, 11:51 AM #39
Also the bat would need to have rabies to begin with.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2007-06-21, 11:58 AM #40
you can also get it if the bat's bodily fluids come into contact with a mucous membrane. so if you like to cut your cocaine with bat semen you should probably stop doing that, i don't know
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