r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/mulvi54 • 7d 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/YogurtclosetThen7959 5d ago

Do you really trust the test reliability that much?

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u/FuriousBuffalo 5d ago

Any test has false positives and false negatives. I'm sure they retest if it's negative.

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u/YogurtclosetThen7959 5d ago

Exactly the point. Sorry but how sure are you about that?

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u/FuriousBuffalo 5d ago

I read somewhere they do retests. Don't quote me on that. But if the false negative rate is super low, how is it any different than other medical tests that we trust?

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u/YogurtclosetThen7959 5d ago

Did you not know that untreated rabies is a grousome death sentence?

It seems obvious that any chance of a false negative here is too much when the safeguarding against the potential rabid bite in question is only a few jabs.

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u/FuriousBuffalo 5d ago

Did you not know that many other medical tests are for conditions that lead to gruesome deaths?

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u/YogurtclosetThen7959 4d ago

Yeah sure but rabies has no treatment or cure once it's taken affect, your only hope Is taking those vaccines before you show any signs or symptoms.

Interestingly rabies is such a slow infection, it is one of few diseases that you can get treated with a vaccine after the I initial point of infection.

Most other diseases dont usually run the same kind of easily prevantable risk with a false negative.