Coyote Attack

[GameBoy27]

Not sure of the stats in Canada but... "Dog bite losses exceed $1 billion per year. In 2010 there were 34 fatal dog attacks in the USA. More than 350,000 dog bite victims are seen in emergency rooms every year. Approximately 800,000 victims receive some form of medical attention annually. Based on data collected in the USA between 2001 and 2003, the CDC concluded that there were 4.5 million dog bite victims per year."

We have one coyote attack and everyone freaks out!

 

[james t kirk]

Rabies is actually a big deal. If you don't get the shots right away it is almost always fatal. By the time you have symptoms you're basically a goner. Fortunately the shots are very effective--but you have to get them immediately or they won't save you.

Sort of.

I actually got bit by a raccoon last summer (long story and I bear no malice against the raccoon) and had to have rabies shots. You have a lot more time than "immediately", it's more like 10 days (or so I was told by the doctor).

I went to the hospital - emergency, thinking I would need the shots "immediately". Nope. The hospital doesn't even have the drugs on hand. They contact Health Canada. The next day, Toronto Public Health called me. They ship the drugs to my famly doctor the day after that.

The numbers of shots are based on your body weight.

Since I'm 6-3 and 225# my first round of shots were 1 anti-rabies vaccine and 8 "antiglobulin" administered to the bite site. (It was these 8 shots that were based on my size)

They are just normal shots and they don't hurt any more or any less than a normal shot.

Then you come back after 3 days for 1 shot (in the arm)

7 days another shot in the arm

14 days another shot in the arm

28 days - last shot in the arm.

I'm now immune to rabies for a couple of years supposedly. (She told me to try and avoid getting bit again anyway.

But you are correct, if you develope the symptoms of rabies - you are dead 100% of the time. (This I did not know. I figured it might be touch and go depending on how strong you are, but no, you are DEAD guaranteed.)

Yikes.

 

[james t kirk]

I think coyotes should be removed or culled from urban areas. They are a very smart predator and are quickly getting familiar with humans and eventually children will be killed..... but I guess we are just waiting for that to happen before acting.

Funny, I feel the same way about humans.

Coyotes have just as much right to life as humans.

More children will be stung to death by bees next summer than will ever be killed by a coyote. (And this is a statisical fact) - so by your logic, you'd better break out the fly swatters lest some little kid somewhere die at the hands (or is that the wings) of smart bees.

 

[blackrock13]

Speaking of wolves, some of our fellow TERBIEs were raised by wolves. Most of their posts are offensive and insulting but good for amusement sometimes, especially when 2 TERBIEs raised by wolves exchange posts with each other. So hilarious. Hee, hee, hee.

I've not read that claim in any post in recent times, although I can't be sure the archives don't have any so you might want to name names instead of trying to be cute and attempting humour.

 

[ooh-ya-more]

I remember seeing a tv program or news story on the internet. One girl actually did survive rabies. I forget the details but for some reason she never sought medical help. I think she was just to young at the time and her parents didn't even know until she came down with the symptoms. Even though she survived, it really messed her up. I think it effected her speech and motor skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyGMPW1OHzI

 

[Aardvark154]

Its my understanding if you travel to BRIC countries you need to be much more concerned about dog bites because they don't routinely vaccinate pets in BRIC countries.

Certainly when traveling in Russia or Ukraine you are advised to keep this in mind. For that reason I never tried to make friends with my former in-laws neighbors dachshund I figured that an ounce of caution was in this case worth a pound of cure if the cure was even available in time.