A History of Rabies
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2022
- Despite millennia of struggle against the disease, rabies remains one of the deadliest illnesses known to man.
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I did not know about Louis Pasteur's role in developing the rabies vaccine. I was badly bitten by a rabid dog when I was a child in the mid-1950s (and still have the scars) . I don't remember the pain, only screaming a lot when I got the shots after the mauling. I am alive today because of Louis Pasteur.
Thank you, Dr. Pasteur.
Thankfully far fewer shots today.
My grandmother was bitten by a mad dog and had to have rabies shots in the stomach, as I remember. She said it was terribly painful! When we had an invasion of skunks under our house, we had a company come in to humanely remove them, and I had a lot of fun talking to the hard bitten wranglers who got wild animals moved. They all had great stories, and showed me a lot of scars! They all had to have rabies vaccines before they could work there. One guy handed me a big bucket one day and said, "don't take the lid off". It was very heavy. I held it up to my face trying to see what was inside. "What is it?" I asked, thinking squirrel, or armadillo. "Big rattlesnake" he said, laughing hysterically at the look on my face, an inch away from a huge, heavy rattler! Those guys had a great sense of humor. Since I didn't scream or drop the bucket, I passed some test and they were always incredibly nice to me after that. .I loved their adventures...
Bitten myself in '62, Eagle Mountain Lake, TX. My fault for messing with the dog when he was enjoying his bone. He was put under observation and I was too. Luckily, I narrowly avoided the shot series. Got away with a couple of stitches and a scar, but felt so bad that I caused that dog to be almost condemned. They considered putting him down, seriously. Folks didn't mess around back then ... My pleas, to give him lenecy were successful. I sure felt guilty for causing that scene with both our families and the animal control people. I was just a pup, myself; I matured in attitude toward man and beast that summer.
@@freeto9139
You sound like a wonderful human being, to have been compassionate to the dog showed a great deal of character on your part! I'm glad you were both survivors!!
Pasteur was a fraud and an asshole who poisoned his patients when they failed to sicken from alleged contagion. He ordered his family never to release his private notes. Rival Antoine Béchamp knew the 'Terrain Theory' was correct: health is down to correct living (no toxins) and good diet. Today we have electromagnetic frequencies and chemical pollutants, so environmental toxicity is much worse.
As a boy, of 12 years old, in Texas, myself, my younger brother and my Grandfather were attacked by a rabid dog that charged at us. We raced to get into the house and none of us was bitten. However the dog did charge the door several times. In true movie type character, the dog was growling, foaming at the mouth, and hung its head low. My Grandfather, shot and killed him. The State Lab, confirmed the infection.
What a story. Glad you avoided the bite, and likely because the dog was already badly crippled by the disease. Good thing Grandfather had a gun too.
@@losmazeman Amen! How true ... In that case I can think of nothing else that would work half as good 👍🏽
I live in Texas and rabies is still a problem here. Someone had a rabid cow at the rodeo a few years ago, it wasnt discovered until a few hundred people had been by the animals pen, and was a huge concern. It was right when the pandemic started, and I don't remember the outcome...
It must have been so scary back then, not that it wouldn't be now. Today, I know "rabid" wouldn't be my first thought if I met an angry dog. In the 1950's, seeing an angry, slavering dog must have prompted thoughts not just of mauling but of the terrible death of rabies.
Thank God for firearms and a granddad who knew how to use it.
I was bitten by a rabid bat in 2006. I will be forever grateful to Pasteur for his work! Those shots are why I am here today.
I hope it wasn’t one of my ex-wives.
I was bitten by a rabbid snake, and was lucky to get treatment. Sadly, the snake was venomous so I died anyway. 😢
@@derekbootle8316 Trump was bitten by a rabbit snake who mistook him for a carrot (and the rabbit liked Cheetos too)
@@TamagoHead Biden sniffed a rabid girl. Despite surviving, his deterated mental state is quite obvious with his lack of an ability to make a coherent statement.
Biden was bitten by a snake, oh it was terrible and not easy to conceal by the press. Anyway 3 solid days of pure agony, hallucinations and racks of pain relief finally came....the snake died
In Norway the last person to die from Rabies was a 24 yr old RN. She and friend was in Thailand and she was bitten by kitten. She did not think much of it until she got home to Norway a week later when all the psymtoms started to show. She was rushed to hostpital, all known cures was tried. She died a few days later. Tragic
As part of my job, I had to capture and put down feral cats and dogs. We would capture them in cages but some people would open the cage before we could get there. I understand wanting to save animals, but it isn't worth your life. Thankfully we were luck and no one was scratched or bitten, but it isn't worth it people! Let animal control do their jobs!
Death by cuteness 🐱
Provide source OP
The last person in Norway to die from rabies was indeed 24, but the rest of the details are a bit off. It was the Philippines, not Thailand; it was a puppy, not a kitten; her initials were BK, not RN. This was back in 2019. The little nips from the puppy had seemed so inconsequential that no one connected them to her symptoms at first. It was only when a doctor suspected rabies, and asked the right questions, that the correct diagnosis was made. By which time, of course, it was much too late.
@@itskarl7575 lol RN means REGISTERED NURSE. That's what she meant by RN. You could be talking about two completely different people just making that mistake...well, now you know...
I was raised on a ranch. When I was 8 years old, my father showed me where he kept his 22-caliber rifle. He took the rifle out of its case, and we walked together down the hill to our stock tank, stopping along the way to pick up a block of 2x6 that he covered with tar paper. He set the block down next to the water, and we walked back to our fenced yard. My father passed me the rifle, pointed to the tank, and said, "I want you to shoot that block."
The distance was about 200 yards.
I missed the first four shots, but I hit the block with my fifth shot.
My father then told me why he had me shoot the block.
"If you ever see a skunk come up to the tank in the daytime, it's because it has rabies." Skunks are nocturnal. "First thing you do is lock up the dogs. Then you get this rifle and load it with hollow points. Then you stand right here -- don't try to get closer -- and you shoot the skunk. After you kill the skunk, take the post-hole diggers and bury that skunk four feet deep. So the dogs don't dig it up. After you have buried the skunk, you can let the dogs out."
After I killed six skunks that summer, I quit counting.
Your father didn't know what the hell he was talking about. This is from an online source - "Contrary to the popular belief that skunks are solely nocturnal, they can come out during the day. Skunks often come out during the day to hunt, gather and avoid nocturnal predators such as owls."
So your dad just had you shoot a bunch of skunks coming out to avoid other predators.
So after you spent your childhood killing and torturing small animals did you move on to being a serial killer or not?
Is there a school shooting in your past? You just seem so proud of all the unnecessary killing.
Amazing story
Thank you for sharing
@@johnfitbyfaithnet Thank you.
@@hlynnkeith9334 what was the tank? And why would rabid skunks go to it all the time?
My older brother was 12 when he was bitten by a bat and since the animal couldn't be caught for testing, he was told he would need to have the rabies vaccine. He came back home after the first of a series, of which I believe at that time was 14 shots in the belly area, swearing that it burned so much that he would never get another one, and promptly ran away from home.
Maybe from fears of becoming a vampire, he did return home later that day to a worried mom and did go get the rest of the shots. He still likes water and doesn't bite necks so all is well. Thankfully we did not have to rely on magic for a cure!
My wife was an epidemiologist nurse for our state health department for 30 years and worked rabies as well as other maladies. Of all the cases she only had one man survive, but he did so with a myriad of health problems. She also worked a rabies cow case, the only one known in our state.
Wisconsin?
Rabies in cattle is not that uncommon. As a veterinarian, bovine rabies is probably a bigger threat to members of my profession than rabid dogs. A common symptom in cattle is salivation or difficulty swallowing eliciting an oral examination by the vet. Since the virus is present in the saliva any contact with a small wound on the hand or forearm can transmit the disease.
I heard they put a woman in a coma and she was able to survive. The survival rate is increasing...
There were a multitude of creatures with rabies in SE Ohio in the 1940s. I think I recall a cow and a horse both.
@@jvleasure
When I was a kid you'd often hear of rabies warnings.
Not only does this history deserve to be remembered, I think it’s *essential* that we remember it.
Especially if you visit countries to this day that are known for rabies like India (from dogs) and Africa (from bats).
In middle school we had these long dark breezeways at the school. One day me and my friends saw a bat fly into it in broad daylight. My idiot friend ran in after it and grabbed it out of mid air and it bit him. I told him not to let go of it since rot already bit him and we put it in a cloth bag I had for marbles and we brought it to the science teacher. She called animal control and they tested it for rabies. Luckily it didn’t have them. Lesson learned: don’t grab bats.
If you see a bat in the daylight, he's sick. Stay clear.
Smart teacher.
...unless you're playing baseball or cricket...
Was your “idiot friend” Ozzy Osborne? Hehheh. Glad he was ok. 😎
@ROGER2095
NO! Stop spreading idiotic conspiracy crap!
A dog mauled my leg as a child and I remember getting the vaccines and a sore tuchus afterward. Back then they gave you twelve in the series or something, and I had the first 5 at the hospital and the rest at the local GP office.
Glad to have them, and thank you Louise Pasteur for your contribution to prevention. I watched a family friend go through the full course of Tetanus infection because they were never vaccinated. (Their home country was impoverished and did not allow for any of the global vaccination programs in as a matter of political distain.)
He survived but was permanently disabled and tube fed for the rest of his life because the surgeries to "unlock" his jaw failed. It was a horrible thing to witness growing up and I cannot imagine what their family's day-to-day was like. He died fairly young from complications of Pneumonia.
My grandfather had polio as a kid and it left him disabled for the rest of his life. His fingers were so twisted up they looked like scary claws to me as a child and compared to a lot of other polio patients his case wasn't all that bad. If he'd ended up in an iron lung or something I wouldn't exist. It truly is amazing how much less terrifying the world is thanks to vaccines.
Atticus Finch's confrontation of the rabid dog in To Kill a Mockingbird at the drive in stuck with me for life.
For me it was a character in a Tamora Pierce novel (I read them as a tween, TKaM as a teen). The character had to deal with a rabid bear, which is terrifying to imagine.
Zora Neale Hurston, too, wrote of a case in one of her novels where, if memory serves, a woman's husband got it from their dog.
@@eliscanfield3913 I am impressed, you know Zora Neale Hurston. I love her books.
@@eliscanfield3913 RABID BEAR!!! I'm glad the director of To Kill a Mockingbird didn't throw that in the film. At seven years old I was scared enough! A warrior princess battling a CGI RABID BEAR would have been, just way to much for me.
This episode of DRAGNET...with the added drama of the bite victim being allergic to the anti-rabies vaccine
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Cujo.....a rabid St. Bernard. Nasty, but terrifying?
Later in life I worked in a active emergency room for ten years, in California I never had a case if Rabies. However, the strangest case I ever heard about was: A woman who lived in Paris, France got rabies from a cornea transplant. The donor who had died was Egyptian. And sure enough, the town where she lived had, had confirmed rabid dogs.
Confirmed how? It does not exist.
That was the story line in a popular American medical show. An MD made an unethical decision to "bump up" a personal friend on the list of people waiting for a liver transplant. The organ had been screened for all the usual possible infections and passed s safe. The friend soon manifested rabies symptoms and died of the least expected malady. I don't recall what the consequences were for the Doc, aside from deep grief over being responsible for his friend's terrible end.
In fact, two patients received corneas from the same donor, and they both got rabies and died: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8776570/#:~:text=Viruses%20such%20as%20human%20immunodeficiency,transmitted%20by%20the%20same%20donor.
In those days, and probably still, the animals head was autopsied, and Negri bodies were confirmation for rabies, under the microscope. The case I mentioned was detailed in the the CDC publication I used to get, the Weekly Mortality and Morbidity report.
It was an actual case, detailed by the CDC. You could look it up. It was published around 1980. It was the feature case in the Weekly Morbidity and Mortality report.
When my father was a boy living in Milwaukee in the 1920s, he was bitten by a rabid dog. His doctor procured a kit from the H. K. Mulford Pharmaceutical Company of Philadelphia. After over 20 injections, he survived.
Any lasting complications?
@@V.Hansen. None that I was ever aware of. He lived until 1994 at 77 years old.
Ive only seen one rabid animal in my 70 years. That was back in 76 at Tyndall AFB. A fox came into the fire station. It was foaming at the mouth and walking all over the place. We all climbed on top of the fire trucks. Security police came and shot it when it finally walked outside. It was tested and found to have rabies. Here at home racoons and skunks seen to be the main carriers.
Yes, Raccoon's are a big time carrier of rabies on the North American Continent, I've shot several rabid one's myself, anytime you see a Raccoon wandering around in the wide open in broad daylight be very leery of it, if it hisses at you and has that "thousand yard stare" in it's eyes either blast it or call someone you know has no problems doing so.
Raccoons are big carriers in NY.
I found a dead bat on my doorstep, an apparent gift from our cat. I called our vet, animal control, and county health, and shockingly not one of them thought the cat or we were at risk. Nor was anyone interested in testing the carcass. Very shocking, I thought.
Rabies is one of those reminders that despite every way we’ve advanced as a species we’re still at the whims of nature in so many other ways
Rabies is no threat to human existence. It's a joke to be existentially paranoid about.
What Brandon said is accurate and not paranoid.
If you are bitten by a rabid animal, there’s no need to be paranoid - that virus is out to get you, 99.9% certain.
I remember watching Old Yeller as a kid.
Disney: Traumatizing children since 1936
We don't have rabies here in Aotearoa - New Zealand. I remember hearing about it as a child whilst watching some cheesy western on t.v. and being absolutely terrified when the symptoms were played out and discussed. Two of my brothers took great delight in convincing me that I could get bitten by rabid houseflies and even playing on the lawn is a dangerous thing to do because of the rabid butterflies and honeybees that I so delighted in. I told one of my teachers, acting really knowledgable about how dangerous rabies was and how we can't play on the school field and she kindly explained to me that rabies didn't exist here and even if it did, insects weren't the vectors. I was so gullible but then my brothers were close to ten years older than me. Bastards. (chuckle)
"rabid houseflies" I laughed.
@annakeye Ten years older? Time has passed but use that to your advantage - get you own back by pretending they have early onset Alzheimer’s.
In the late 1800’s, bicycle riders were very afraid of being bitten by dogs. So many companies sold small revolvers, with folding triggers for compactness, for them to carry and shoot attacking dogs. They were chambered in a special cartridge just for shooting dogs called the 5.5 mm Velo Dog.
I have a velodog type revolver, some are very well made, mine is not lol
Many of the Velo-Dogs produced after 1900 accepted .22 LR or .25 ACP rounds
@@g00gleminus96 The 5.5 Velo Dog is a Centerfire cartridge. The common .22 caliber cartridges won’t work in them. They are rimfire. Of course the .25 APC cartridge is too large to fit in any 5.5 Velo Dog gun. Velo Dog is a 5.5 mm cartridge, not a gun. Wiki got this wrong, as they do many times.
I would like one of these pistols
Based.
Being raised in Central Texas skunks were the major carrier . I saw 4 rabid skunks by the time I went to High School I got more lectures about skunks than rattlesnakes or cotton mouths
Would much rather get bit by a snake than a rabid anything!
Rabid skunks and bats are a problem in the southern Rockies as well. Grew up with that caution in Southern Colorado.
Around Pennsylvania rabid Raccoon's are a problem, I've blasted several of them in my life.
Still the second most likely source of infection here in Wisconsin. Bats have a 6% infection rate among those tested, which means a much lower background infection rate because they're more likely to be caught if they're infected, but it's still a dangerous percentage. Skunks come in second-most infected, but more commonly encountered, since they're not as likely to evade dogs as most other animals. When your butt is loaded with chemical warfare, you don't always feel the need to retreat; add to that rabies, and dogs with more excitement than good sense, and it can be a problem. Still very rare, though. We're lucky--that universal vaccination of pets makes a world of difference.
@@captainamericaamerica8090 they're not immune, they're resistant. There's a difference.
My wife was bitten by a rabid cat before Christmas.She was treated but we are not clear yet. Prayers appreciated.
Is she ok?
@@Reoni09 yes.Still tires easily though.Thanks for asking!
@@lilwobblywade6324 Glad to hear!
My grandfather died in 1942 of rabies after his hunting dog bit him. My mother and grandmother took care of him until he was hospitalized. She said watching him die was the most horrible thing she ever saw. 🇨🇦
I'm sorry for your family's loss.
A friend of mine recently got bitten by an unvaccinated dog; he piddled around about taking the shots much longer than I would have, but since the dog was asymptomatic as my friend was approaching the deadline, it was decided he could avoid taking the treatment. My late mother-in-law, being tougher, just went to get the shots immediately upon confirming the dog didn't have an up-to-date vaccination. She said the shots were 'unpleasant', but she had a very high tolerance for pain (and exhaustion, as she had 4 kids in 4 years, then got a PhD in five years, starting when the youngest kid was in first grade, at a university 50+ miles from where she lived, while working full-time).
Having been an ER provider, I researched everything thing I could on Rabies after I got a potential case (but he didn't, have rabies) Ths presentation by History Guy seems to be spot on, I didn't see or hear any errors. Good job.
Misread the title at first: "A History of Babies." Well, that'd be a bit too deep.
Same here. Also, I just realized I have been up all night!
The beginning would be VERY grim.
A history of rabid babies who grow up to be even more rabid adults could be interesting. It seems we have no shortage of those nowadays , especially in public life.....🤔😖
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@@goodun2974 Sounds like a prequel of the show, The Walking Dead 🤪🤣
Another video on my YT feed this evening reads, "How American Sardines can target 90% of the world from the depths." Well, at least that's how I read it the first time. Turns out it's "submarines".
As someone who has a fascination with/deep terror of rabies, I've picked up a few interesting facts: the reason you are less to be bitten by a rabid squirrel or bat is because the smaller the mammal, the more quickly the virus kills the animal.
Researching Rabies one night (just one of those random questioning something I knew little about) I came across some videos of human Rabies victims in various stages after onset of symptoms. Ugly, ugly stuff. One could not be judged in any harsh way for killing themselves or someone else who had progressed to the irreversible stages, as the last ones were very very unpleasant even to watch.
Aww man you didn’t talk about the pre-exposure vaccine. Every veterinarian is required to take it by law and to get titers done once every other year. Was hoping you would talk about rabies and veterinarians because we are so intrinsically linked to the disease.
I never thought of that
I did briefly mention it at 12:34. I agree that I could have mentioned the risk to veterinarians, there are always choices to make when cutting to approximately 15 minutes.
@@circusshizshow animals like food
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I am completely aware of this. The topic is rather expansive so I understand the need to cut. The video was great and was a great overview of the history of rabies.
@@circusshizshow Disney princess syndrome
Good morning from Ft Worth TX to everyone watching.
Good morning to you, too, from northern Delaware.
We dodged a rabies bullet while I was growing up on a Michigan farm. A stray dog had been seen looking very ill, and my folks shot it before it could attack us (8yo me) or our dogs, horses or cattle. Neighbors came over and looked over the dead dog. I didn't understand at the time how serious rabies was till they kind of explained it to me. Never approach a sick animal, they said.
And never approach a stray while in a developing country.
Some of the very few survivors of symptomatic infection were severely disabled thereafter. Be sure your companion animals are vaccinated. If you have contact with an unvaccinated animal's saliva, contact not only your physician but also your state's dept. of health and do so at once.
I wondered about that when he said that one protocol saved 5/36- i wondered if they were normal or suffered some neurologic damage.
This is discriminatory against furries...
Ontario Canada used to have the dubious reputation as the rabies Capitol of the world. Back in 1989 scientists working jointly for both its Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) and Ministry of Agriculture at the Great Lakes Forest research institute developed vectored oral vaccines that were air droppable from the OMNR’s Twin Otter aircraft. They would target areas where reported cases had occurred and used different target vector vaccines depending on species. (Fox,raccoon, coyote) The dropped vaccines have drastically reduced outbreaks. Since then the OMNR have taken the technology on the road introducing the scheme to Texas as well as the states that border Ontario. All have enjoyed a respite from this horrible disease. The OMNR’s Air Service branch does all manner of aerial work including fire suppression and is the world oldest government air service and has been in continuous service since 1924.
They did something similar here on Long Island, where they targeted the main vectors raccoons with bait laced with vaccine. This area is considered mostly rabies free, although there were a few breakthrough cases in wild animals a few years ago.
In the late 1950's and early 1960's, during my childhood in rural Virginia, stray dogs were routinely put down and buried immediately.
Folks simply did not take chances.
I wonder how many of them were lost pets.
I lived in the country and was a farm boy. We were taught early that if you see an wild animal acting weird, (ie. unafraid of humans, walking strangely, or foaming at the mouth) we should run away from the animal immediately. I still remember when a raccoon with rabies approached we kids. it walked slowly, had it's head down and kept walking towards us. I finally saw it's foamy mouth and I screamed rabies and we all ran for our lives. Oh, I'm Canadian, and if you want a Canadian director's vision of the disease, watch David Cronenberg's 1977 film, "Rabid".
That is a terrifying film!!!
How does it compare to Cujo?
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel You can't compare Cronenberg to anything. There's only one Cronenberg. He's one grotesque snowflake. Cujo is like a Disney movie. Rapid is like Italian torture-horror cinema. Regarding Cujo and Rabid, we're comparing apples to severed heads.
@@RobinMarks1313
You are right. One is a fun kind of scary movie, the other is a world of unbelievable nightmare, where nothing is going to save the lives and sanity of the affected.
Years ago in Northern California I had a jackrabbit come hopping toward me in a weird way, almost like it was drunk. Now jackrabbits have no business approaching people. This was all wrong and I jumped on the porch and grabbed my bb gun. Put it out of its misery....had the carcass checked and it was indeed rabid.
We live out in the country and a few times over the years I would see a rabid racoon on our property. I can't say why it seems common for racoons to get rabies but that been my experience. I've always called the game warden/animal control to come out. It's our duty to notify them. They take rabies seriously and it's their duty to put down rabid animals. One tell-tale sign of a rabies infected animal is when you see a nocturnal animal that's out during the day time. Also they'll act something like they're drunk, wobbly and their actions not making sense. If you suspect a rabid animal, keep an eye on where they're headed and call animal control right away, and when he/she arrives let them know that animal's last location.
Raccoons are common, and they aren't as fast as some other wild animals to avoid getting bitten in the first place. And they're probably more likely to transmit it to another member of their own species than a deer is of biting another deer.
Jeanna Giese-Frassetto, the first person to survive rabies without being vaccinated, became a mom when she gave birth to twins Carly Ann and Connor Primo on March 26, 2016. In 2004, Jeanna was bitten by a bat she rescued from her church in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but did not seek medical attention.
Her survival offered a moment of great hope, but the Milwaukee protocol still fails far more often than it succeeds. Her life, though, can be counted a medical miracle.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel they should dig in and analyze everything she ate, breathed, check her blood type, and sequence her dna to attempt to synthesize monoclonal antibodies against rabies
Wasn't she put into a medically induced coma? Think I heard of her...
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel It was a medical miracle, but her recovery was incredibly difficult! It provided some important insights into the mechanism of destruction by the rabies virus; by quieting down the brain's own responses to the infection, it reduced the damage to the point that the immune system was slowly able to clear the virus. From there, the brain had to be "rebooted," and many basic functions relearned, such as walking and talking.
Just getting that far into the process of preventing her death, doctors got more information on what the rabies virus does, and what part the body's own response plays, than we had ever learned before. Might one day lead to a real treatment, not to eradicate the virus, but to allow recovery.
@@AnonMedic my understanding is that her cases has been thoroughly studied, and the protocol updated several times. It is being used more in South America, where the disease is a greater threat.
But the odds are still against a person with symptomatic rabies.
"Who cried when Old Yeller got shot?" -John Winger
One of the saddest and one of the scariest movies both came down to a dog getting infected by rabies, "Old Yeller" and "Cujo" (respectively.) After having seen "Cujo" when I was a kid, I somehow got the idea that 1: a phone ringing can make a dog go crazy, 2: it took something like eight (or more) shots (injections) directly into the stomach to cure a rabies infected human.
Cujo wasn't merely rabid; in the book, the dog was also possessed by the malevolent spirit of a serial killer from The Dead Zone. As a St Bernard owner myself, it was a shitty book and a crappy movie.
@@goodun2974 honestly not a fan of the author either
I've been frothing at the mouth for this one!
I too was bitten by curiosity
You beat me to this one.
@Ben Avery Somebody had to say it
Yours is one of my top three or four favorite channels I watch. I have always been History fan. When I completed my undergraduate work (degrees in Zoology and Biochemistry) I had 15 more semester units than needed to graduate - all in various areas of History. I wish even a quarter of my professors had been half as accomplished as you are in telling “the story.” Well done as always and thank you!
Your history lessons give me some sunshine. I love to learn. Thank you 🤔❤🇺🇸
Another great production.
Thank you for doing this.
In Louisiana -I’m 73- lived played fished hunted worked in the swamps and forests- only once I came across a skunk with rabies -all my friends on the bayou and I had numerous dogs - not one rabies occurrence -my grand parents only warned against raccoons
I am a retired neurosurgeon. I recall a few people being treated for possible rabies after a dog bite and they all did well. We did diagnose and treat a man who had herpes of the brain. He died but not before undergoing a horrible prolonged death. Great presentation!
Rabies is really fascinating and impressively lethal.
Always enjoy your posts.They are fascinating.This one was no exception.Thank you.
Whoo hoo!!!! You finally updated the website. You're the best THG, you never leave me hanging.
The podcast streaming widget on the site is the only thing that lets my headphones get quiet enough to fall asleep to
Interesting. Enjoy your program. Thank you History Guy.
You are amazing as always! I was not aware how deadly this is.
Wonderfully written and extremely tight episode! Well done!
Medical history is so deep and fascinating. Great video as always, and I hope to see more related to Medical history in the future.
Thank You for a very informative documentary.
Very good, thank you.
Speaking as (thank God!) a retired doctor one of the most prevalent fallacies in our 'modern' society is the dangerous illusion that we have any real control over anything at all - as an example your health is dependent mostly on fortune, and otherwise on how well you care for yourself.
You can do nothing about the former, neglect the latter and your doctor is almost entirely powerless to repair the damage you have done.
In a way diseases like rabies collectively do us a necessary if miserable favour! They help remind the wise not to succumb completely to hubris.
Regardless of how much we learn about extending our old age it will never be enough, we will always want more. Life will always be a precious commodity and so should be cherished while we have it.
Well said! ❤
I was surprised to hear of all the stones in Texas. I will have to check out the history and see if any are still around. I live in DFW area. Loved the history lesson. I am an ER nurse and have administered the PEP many times especially when I worked in Killeen Tx. I bet I gave at least one vaccine a week for the year I worked there.
My parents were Diplomatic. We were in New Delhi, India in 1966. I was 6 and my older brother was 11. I have always been small and today I am only 5ft and 103-107pds. My brother stood 6ft when he was 12. We had a high wall around the house with guards but we would get monkeys in the yard. One day, Mike and I were in the yard. I had some fruit. We believe it was a young male because it was bigger then me. It tried to take my fruit. My brother was bigger then the monkey and I took Mike on all the time. I figured I could take it. (I WAS 6!) I proceeded to have a knock down dragout fight with a macaque. Mike was on the sidelines yelling tips. Gleefully! Then there was a lot of blood. The monkey didn't bite me really. One of his k9's got the bottom of my upper lip. Mother was a surgical nurse and put 4 stitches in but the monkey took off so I would have to have one rabies shot every day for 28 days in my stomach. I made them give my doll the shots first. If she cried. I wasn't going to have it. (I WAS 6!) Mike and the guards saw the condition of the monkey as it went for the wall. He ended up with blackeyes, split lip and bloody nose. All thanks to my brothers teachings! I am 62 now. I have a faint white line where my upper lip touches my teeth and my doll with 28 small holes in her stomach. The family has never let me live that fight down. If you ask Mike why he didn't do something. He smiles and says. I taught her how to take care of herself. She could take him and did. I have the best big brother! Although, I could have done without the swimming lesson in the Yamuna River and the shared typhoid that went with it. Mike and I have no idea how we lived through our childhood, let alone into our 60's. We do know one thing. We've had a damn good life and a lot of fun along the way.
Fighting a monkey is now one of my life goals.
@@dimesonhiseyes9134 Goals are a good thing! Little tip for you. Some monkeys when they are scared. Well releave themselves. Stay clear of the back blast zone. That is experience talking.
@@dmarcouxbeatty374 Sorry I laughed way to hard at your story. What a life you must have had AND a good big brother.
Great story! I've been to India a few times and was advised to always carry--and be prepared to use--a good-sized stick where monkeys are around. Usually they just steal your glasses or something, but they can become enraged and attack. - I avoided typhoid but did come home with malaria. - But it's a wonderful country!
@@tedwalford7615 Yes Sir! It is a wonderful Country! Mike and I had a grand time! Well done on not catching typhoid. Our swim in the Yamuna was not scheduled but I learned how to swim really fast! Oops! We had the shots every year so we were sick but no where near deaths door. Same with the malaria. We were in Kenya at that time. Mum and I shared that but we had taken the pills for years. We were sick but no where near deaths door. Question for you. Did you see the Red Fort in Delhi? It is across the street from the main Sikh Temple. Both are just magnificent! Old Delhi was another favourite of ours.
Very informative. Thank you for the information.
Dear History Guy. I really enjoyed this presentation.
I came across this video after discovering my father-in-law’s great uncle died of rabies at age 7 due to a dog bite. (This was in the UK in 1883.) The thing that shocked me, when I was looking for articles about it, was how often it seemed to happen!
Always interesting, thank you.
i got attacked & bitten by a rabid bat on a drilling location about 14 yrs ago. it took over 2 hrs drive to get to a hospital, common sense told me it takes weeks or months for symptoms to appear, but it screwed with my head so bad i was continuously swallowing to avoid drooling by the time i reached the hospital...
i still clearly remember worrying what would i do if i got an urge to BITE the 1st person i saw... happily, i managed to NOT chew on anybody.
Old Yeller was my Papaw’s favorite movie and it always broke my 💜
I’m still feeling the trauma of that movie to this day.
That's one movie that I can never rewatch. As a dog-lover, it's just too damn sad.
Fascinating, as always.
Who creates those wonderful opening titles?
Scariest horror movie you'll ever see is the 2 minute documentary clip I once saw of a kid strapped to a gurney dying of rabies somewhere in a 3rd world hospital. Our folklore of vampires, werewolves & zombies derives from various aspects of humans infected w/ rabies. Unfortunately, there will be no WHO program to wipe out rabies like there was for smallpox, since it affects all mammals not just humans.
WHO is partnering with a number of organizations in a plan called "Zero by 30." The goal is to end all human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030. apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272756/9789241513838-eng.pdf
The UK eradicated it from our island in 1922.
@@poppedweasel the blessings of geography, is far easier to eradicate a disease like rabies in islands, but try the same in places like South America, with the Amazon jungle, Africa, India, etc. It would be impossible.
@@freedomloverusa3030 Indeed so. Yet nothing is insummountable.
Makes me wonder why we exhausted ourselves over a low mortality case like COVID-19. It is found in mammals, not just humans.
Great work Sir thank you
Fascinating video. I love when you do medical topics! Would love to see more videos on the scourges of early modern medicine which vaccination has remarkably diminished the incidence of-measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, etc
Between you and Dr. Felton, I have to say that all history is covered and covered correctly and truthfully. God bless you all. The history guy and your family.
Agreed.
Excellent..one of your best......
The look of curiosity and wonder on the African boy's face as he watches the dog get inoculated is so precious. I hope he has kept that sense of wonder and curiosity since the photo was taken.
Having worked on rabies vaccines for dogs and cats… an excellent episode.. also had post exposure prophylaxis 👍👍
Excellent as usual
Thank you for the excellent presentation and for discussing the origin of the phrase "hair of the dog." However, it would have been nice if the photo of the medical stone thought by sone to cure rabies and the bites of poisonous reptiles had included a scale so we would have some idea of its size.
I had difficulty getting any Public Domain image of a mad stone. They are not actually stones, but bezoars- calcified material found in the stomach of an animal . The image is a bezoar- but not one used as a mad stone.
Mad stones varied in size, shape and color.
ShelbyCountyToday.com described some stones used in Texas:
“One mad stone was described as being small, flat, and of a dark gray color like slate. Another was irregular in shape, dark brown, and porous. One of the Georgetown stones was said to be about the size of a small hen egg with one end cut smooth away. Still another mad stone looked just like a chunk of common coal.”
Recommended reading: "Rabies: a cultural history of the world's most diabolical virus" by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. As a kid, the books that first interested me in this type of stuff were "the Incurable Wound" and "11 Blue Men" by Berton Rouche' who wrote and compiled stories of investigative epidemiology, basically medical detective stories about outbreaks of rare diseases, and mass poisonings, that had the experts stumped. The Incurable Wound was specifically about rabies.
I've read a collection of Berton Rouche's articles entitled The Medical Detectives. The man was a formidable journalist. I was quite impressed with his explanations of rabies. It is a terrifyingly deadly ailment. If that disease is not the zombie apocalypse it will do till it comes along.
@@PadraigTomas , I specifically remember several of his stories. A Swim In the Nile was about Schistomiasis (parasitic worms that burrow through your skin and into your circulatory system). A Pig from Jersey was about trichinosis. There were stories about anthrax, and histoplasmosis, and psittacosis....what can I say, I am fascinated by icky stuff that makes most people ill just to think about. I used to watch "Monsters Inside Me" as well.
Thanks!
Great video.
I still think it is amazing that we have been able to decipher and read Cuneiform... and that we have learned so much from the knowledge AND history from 4,000+ years ago.
01:25 "...has the highest mortality rate..."
Actually *_Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease_* has a mortality rate of 100% with the longest period before death being 10 years. 70% are dead within the first two years. The patient that I had, had bruxism so badly that she was shattering her teeth and choking on the pieces.
I was quoting WebMD. I can't vouch for them...
Thanks for the tidbit of info, though I'd say context matters here. CJD is rare. It's like someone saying 'there's nothing more deadly than getting shot in the head'. And someone else comes back with "nuh uh! If a black hole swallowed the earth that'd be more deadly!" OK. I'll still say the prior statement is true in context.
@@knurlgnar24 People routinely survive being shot in the head…
Rapid medical care is critical…
Untreated Rabies has not had a survivor.
cjd is caused by a prion, right?
@@cindys9491 Yes. She [the patient] spent some time in South America, eating the local foods. One of their meals consisted of cooked monkey brains, which we assumed was the vector.
In all my years dealing with multiple whack-a-doodle diseases, I've seen TB, tetanus, malaria, C/J disease, gunshots, stabbings, burns, bones broken so badly that my very last patient was T-boned by a car and his right foot was next to his right ear. But in all those years, not a single rabies. One patient was bitten by a bat and was getting shots until it was determined not to be a rabid bat. So, by my calculation, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is 100% more common than rabies. Granted, a sample size of 2 patients...😉
I also delivered 2 babies which was 2 too many. One in the front seat of a pickup truck and the other in the elavator.
growing up in the 80s there was a rash of a dozen or so possum and raccoons coming up rabid where I grew up. The police would come out and shoot them on sight. This was in NY state and not a really rural area. So to see something like a raccoon possum or skunk or even a fox in daylight would always be a cause for alarm. If you saw one - they might be sick.
Wow 😮 Thank You So Much for this History
Thank you for sharing. Now I have to watch Old Yeller again
The History Guy knows how to take a big bite out of fascinating history!
Excellent Content.
I really should go and (re) visit my optometrist, I thought this episode was about Rabbis. And much to my disappointment or is it delight, I learned something else.
Rabbis rarely bite.
@@kerriwilson7732 Thank God!
@ThehistoryGuy I wish you would have also mentioned that, albeit a mutated form, rabies infected humans has become a popular impetus for the zombie genre of movies. For example: World War Z 2013, Patient 0 2018, Quarantine 2008 and Quarantine 2: Terminal, and I Am Legend 2007, Dying Light 2015 and Dying Light 2, The Passage series 2019 (vampires not zombies),I'm sure there are others I've forgotten. Thanks for another wonderful video.
In 2001 In Reston Virginia a man died of rabies after being misdiagnosed for a number of days, he had stated that he had no bites or scratches or contact with any animals. By the time they correctly diagnosed him it was too late. They later guessed that he must of come into contact with some still virulent bit of saliva or blood while working in his garden. It was the last known death from non-bite rabies in Virginia. In 2003 I helped a neighbor by removing a sick bat she found on the floor of basement. After I removed it all will wearing leather work gloves and making sure I did not directly touch it while putting it in a plastic bag. I then called animal control and asked if they wanted to pick up the still live bat for testing they did and two hours later I received a call from the Fairfax county health department saying I needed to begin treatment for exposure to rabies, I demurred and gave them the number of the neighbor. I called my own heath insurance carrier and at first was advised not to worry as I had no direct contact but they would call their infective disease specialist. Thirty minutes later I got a call back from them and was told to get my butt to the clinic right now and they would start me on the anti rabies protocol. They informed my of the above mentioned death said they did not want to take any chances. I was given eight shot total over a three week period. Whenever I went to that clinic from then on I was known as that rabies guy.
As a side note Reston Virginia has another more famous connection with deadly viruses which can be found in the beginning of the book "The Hotzone".
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Dear History Guy: I noticed your left eyelid dropped at the 12:33 and 12:35 time marks. If this is new please see a doctor. Unless you were very tired it could be a sign of a hidden problem. TAKE CARE.
I saw it too, I think the issue was that I was filming at 1am.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel It is a sign of a not-so-hidden hidden problem. Working on reports at 1am. We're not in college any more. :-) I'm impressed either of your eyes were open.
I'm glad someone brought this up. I was concerned also!
Dam that got my attention! Thank you.
In the 80's I worked at the NY Health dept. I researcher in the Rabies Path Lab was was diagnosed with rabies and was treated with the Milwaukee Protocol. He survived but was never the same, having pretty severe mental disability. It was almost 6 months before he left the hospital and never did return to work. It is definitely a sad disease.
Another great and informative video mate. I presume that there is a lot of knowledge regarding rabies in the U.S.
As an Aussie I was astounded when Johnny Depp smuggled a dog or dogs into Australia (a rabies free country) breaking all the quarantine laws to appease his girlfriend and then attack our laws and politicians as if he is above the law and he couldn't care less if rabies got into Australia.
I no longer watch Depp movies and I hope he sees this.
@Dera Kioandria Williams
And you are from ? ?
Thank you.
Interesting again Lance and team! As a wildlife professional and trapper I deal with wild animals quite a bit (daily) and tried to get the vaccine-Insurance company denied it 2 years ago-despite my appeals... they figured THEY would take the risk (Shot is about $1,200) lol. I was exposed a few months later (again, about 2 years ago) and recall it was several rounds of shots (I got more than 4 in the first round) and some were described as treatment, some as future vaccine... I only know they didn't hurt too bad but were plentiful and the rounds cost just over $14,000 in total-I gleefully sent the bill to the insurance and pointed out their poor risk assessment lol. I had to smile at 6:09 in the video-I run an outdoors guild at a college-the St Hubertus Guild for outdoor skills... you yet again taught me something I did not know-thank you for that!!! (Again... lol)
Sorry to hear the healthcare system failing to recognize your legitimate interests.
I work in childcare in Germany and got my OBGYN to test my childhood vaccination coverage for 40€ because I wasn't pregnant and didn't plan on becoming so but hope policy is changing as a national insurance instituted coverage and expanding that is a union goal locally.
Iv heard my grandpa. Tell about a man who had rabies they tied him to the bed to keep him from harming others and he had fits and chewed the sheets up before he died
Back in 1980 a rabid fox ran me into the bed of a pickup truck.I reached thru the rear sliding window and got my shotgun.I then killed it and covered it up with a rusty tub that was laying around where nothing else would get infected.
3:26 is most reminiscent of an entryway I saw at Pompeii. Below the dog is the warning "Cave Canum", also set in tile.
I don't remember seeing it, if you have done it, but if you have not I would like to see a video on malaria. We have mummies that have tested positive for malaria.
I would also like to see Rocky mountain spot tick fever, and Lyme's disease. Lyme's disease will probably be more interesting, as it wasn't until the mid-1980s that they figured out that there was a bacteria involved. They just didn't know what was making some kids sick and Lyme county in the 1970s....
Thanks History Dude ! Another great lesson .
As part of a project to read the local newspapers from 1942 and 1943 for each day of this year (and 1944/1945 next) I was astounded at the threat rabies presented to my area. It was so bad that a militia of sorts was formed to take out any suspicious dogs in the northern part of the county, and the variety of animals that tested positive was also astounding.
Veterinary staff are all required to receive a preventative vaccine series before working with animals of unknown vaccine history. Very often we send a case for testing, but none have been positive in my area since I started working with them.
I grew up in Milwaukee. The rabies case that led to the Milwaukee protocol was covered heavily in the news. The whole process was fascinating. The case could warrant an entire video.
thanks
I could sink my teeth into this episode!