This piece of news caught my eye today, and I'm wondering why I need to know that a 15 year old child may have rabies after being bitten by a bat. He felt dizzy after being bitten - that's called shock. He brother died - quite sad, not relevant. He has had the vaccinations, he has been to hospital. The risk of him catching rabies is so low that I really don't think I care. If he does develop the disease, that's obviously more of a worry. Rant over.
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1 comment:
But it's brilliant media fodder.
Young boy
Family tragedy
RABIES (cue, everybody panic!)
BATS (everybody panic as above)
Wild animal BITING innocent children (ditto on the panicing front)
I agree it's not news as such, and interesting only for disease geeks like me who would like to know if Rabies (although it'd be much more likely to be a bat Lyssa virus from a UK bat don't you think? - or am i out of date on that one?) did affect the young chap eventually, and so not really in the public interest, but you can't imagine the meeja resisting the sensationalist bait (sorry) as mentioned above can you?
I know it'd be nice if from time to time they did show some restraint though...
We can hope huh?
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