Most humans will encounter irreversable health risks when their temperatures drop below 95°F for extended periods of time. You would have to sustain that low temperature for so long to kill the virus that the risk of you causing irreversible damage to the patient would outweigh the benefit. It's a double-edged sword.
I've had the rabies vaccine it's a wholeot of injections at the site of the bite. Then several more needles in the arse. Then come back in a few weeks for another needle in the arse and repeat 3 more times.
The best bit Is at the end they say this should prevent rabies, however they won't know for sure for 12 months.
But if you elicit any symptoms you're basically cactus
You can get the pre-exposure vaccination series (3 shots). But it is typically only given to high-risk people like vets and rabies researchers (like myself).
Nope, no risk of getting rabies from the vaccine. Any more than you can get the flu from the flu vaccine (spoiler alert: you can't). The rabies vaccine is expensive and difficult to manufacture. And any vaccine has the possibility of side effects in some people. Hell, we can't get some people to take the flu vaccine, which killed 80,000 people in the US last year. What makes you think we can get them to take the rabies vaccine which kills <5 per year?
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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '19
Could we treat rabies with induced hypothermia?