Someone I work with found a bat in her house. So she was ordered to get treated for vaccinations against rabies. As a lot of captured bats test positive for rabies.
Naturally I felt horrible for her because this would mean a foot-long needle to the stomach. Something, I recall, we told each other as children in grade school...like some kind of urban folklore...the horror story of getting the rabies shot. It always seemed worse than foaming at the mouth and dying from rabies.
So I googled it...and found THIS STORY... and felt better about the future bat bite I'll hopefully get at some point.
And my concern for my coworker didn't keep me from sending her this:
