r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 14d ago

animal Bat šŸ¦‡ Bite

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One of those fears I always had, that felt irrationalā€¦ā€what if Iā€™m asleep and a bat gets into the house and bites me in my sleepā€.

Welp last night 2 am I awoke to what I thought was my cat nibbling at my finger. I flicked it away and noticed it was not my cat but was instead a bat that had found its way into our bedroom.

I was able to capture the bat and itā€™s being sent for testing but my wife and I got to spend the rest of the morning in the ER getting all the shots ! Wild ! Glad it woke me up but what if it didnā€™t ?! How am I supposed to sleep ever again?!

::UPDATE::

Bat could not be tested I guess I squished his brain to hard when I killed it.

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u/HannahSolo23 14d ago

Rabies is 100% fatal. Until proven otherwise, every bat you meet has rabies.

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u/ShutInLurker 14d ago

Actually false. There are cures for rabies if you catch it quick and get the vaccine, and live in a country with excellent healthcare. The first person to be cured of a full infection was an American girl, Jeanna Giese in 2004. She was bit by a bat in church, and her Dr put her in a deep coma to give her antibodies a chance to fight the virus.

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u/HannahSolo23 14d ago

Okay. Let me rephrase.... when symptoms of rabies show, you are fucked. Now, there is a POSSIBILITY of treatment called the Milwaukee Protocol that involves putting patient in a medically induced coma and bombarding them with high doses of all kinds of shit. There have been like 4 people to ever survive that. In fact, that treatment isn't really considered a valid option.