hydrophoby, bats, asini

[SL S <stepnout@swva.net>]

Last year we had a trauma patient who had been attacked by her miniature
donkey.  It flew into a rage at feeding time and tore her arm off, not
re-implantable because shredded.  Yes, rabies.  Here in Virginia we had a
patient die of rabies with no history of any kind of exposure, no bite
wounds; his lab results showed a bat-borne strain of the virus.  One Sunday
about 5am I woke up hearing a strange noise and found a bat flapping about
in my bedroom; no bite marks on me.  I called the infectious disease folks
at my hospital and they recommended the rabies series plus the immune
globulin, because "Bat-borne rabies virus can cross the muco-cutaneous
junction without needing a break in the skin."

Needless to say I wasted no time getting immunized, and got to wear my huge
circular Batwoman earrings to work for the five weeks of the injections.  

Sally  
Sally Spangler

Stepnout Farm
Floyd, VA


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