A Michael Broad Blog
Click Orlando.com report that an adopted stray cat tested positive for rabies on Merritt Island. This prompted a 60 day rabies alert in the area. As a consequence, Florida Department Of Health (FDOH) issued a list of precautions people should take to avoid rabies. They are quite interesting. I comment on them below. Keep …
It was all captured on body camera footage and a lot of viewers are weighing in on it including the media with titles such as “Police pepper spray suspected rabid cat”. In the footage you can hear the conversation that the officers were having when they decided how to take that cat down. The …
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA as reported by WWAY3: Shyam Patil was scratched by a stray cat. You can see in the photograph that they were tiny scratches but he was advised by his doctor to get a rabies shot just in case because the skin had been broken. His doctor told him to go …
Florida: Is the fear of rabies transmitted to domestic cats going to drive cat owners to keeping their cats under direct supervision or keep them inside? There’s a report in the UK online news media which describes a small central Florida town being ‘infested with feral felines’. I think the word “infested” is an …
This is the extraordinary story of a single injection of rabies immune globulin costing $46,422. In fact the total bill for this woman who was bitten by a feral cat in Miami-Dade County, Florida was $48,512. Her insurance paid $44,320.90 so her direct payment to the hospital for the treatment was $4191.10. Her funeral …
This is the final picture of a British man with duel nationality who was bitten by a stray cat in Morocco. His name is Omar Zouhri. The cat happened to be infected with rabies and therefore he became infected. Regrettably, he did not obtain post exposure treatment for this fatal disease early enough and …
Prophylaxis: treatment given or action taken to prevent disease – in this case a course of rabies jabs after exposure to the disease. You can treat a bite from a rabid animal with a course of vaccinations. In the USA, the cost of a course of rabies immune globulin and four doses of vaccine …
After a no-deal Brexit, if a UK citizen wants to take their pet to continental Europe i.e. within the European Union they will need a rabies vaccination and a health certificate which would cost around £60 (US$79). This seems to be a bizarre state of affairs because the UK has been rabies free since …
