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oh snap, I guess the peta people will be happy cause now Manu has to go through some pains with the shots.... F peta!
Per Don Harris news 4 just on espn radio
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oh snap, I guess the peta people will be happy cause now Manu has to go through some pains with the shots.... F peta!
Ouch! Sorry MG!
Not suprising. Bats are known carriers of rabies. They can bite you and you won't know you are bit. Anybody who handled the bat without protective devises should get the shots as precaution.
WTF?!!? Is this serious or a joke?
Aren't rabies shots one of the most painful around?
Not anymore, it USED to be something like 18 shots into your stomach, it has evolved since then.
Today, the rabies vaccine has only 5-7 shots in the arm and the butt. The shots are spread out on different days, and they help your body fight the rabies virus, so you don’t catch the disease.
Its not that bad anymore.
Yep, I knew they were coming.
ducks posting in this thread in 3..2..1...
It's the wise thing to do. You can contract rabies without being bite.
i think Manu with rabies would be awesome to watch!
I was thinking about this. The only stupid thing I could think of when Manu got the bat, was that's not so smart because bats could carry diseases.
If I remember, its a series of 5 shots over a month.
I had to get them like 2 years ago. Painful, but not bad. You have to get them in certain incremets.
I had a bat wake me up one night. They don't have to bite you to give you rabies. It can be transmitted in their saliva as well.
It was the top story on KSAT 12, our ABC affiliate. It's just a precaution. But sounds like he got 4 shots today, and will still need another 10 throughout the month to complete the vaccination.
Sean Elliott joked around saying that Manu should come to practice foaming at the mouth.
Obviously Sean is a man who can see the future.
damn batmanu is human afterall
the bat should be the one getting the shot
Rabies shots for Manu
By Jeff McDonald on Nov 2, 09 04:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) Save & Share Yahoo! BuzzYahoo! Newsvine del.icio.us Facebook Google Reddit Fark
Manu Ginobili's Halloween run-in with a bat made for entertaining news fodder for a few days. Ginobili, however, isn't laughing anymore.
Team officials could not locate the bat after Saturday's game against Sacramento, so it could not be tested for disease. Which meant Ginobili will spend the next month getting a series of precautionary shots to protect against rabies.
"It was pretty funny at the time," Ginobili said before practice this afternoon. "Now, it's not. I have to get like a million shots."
According to the Center for Disease Control, only a small percentage of bats carry the rabies virus. Ginobili took four injections Sunday, in the arm and hip, and is scheduled for four more sessions over the next month.
Ginobili has shown no symptoms of the disease, and was expected to practice as normal this afternoon.
If he learned anything from the ordeal, it's that it's all fun and games until someone needs a rabies shot.
"It wasn't so much fun," Ginobili said. "The bat survived. I'm fine. I'm not going to have rabies. The bat won."
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...-shots-fo.html
Do your ing research, moron - symptoms don't show for at least two weeks.
I guess it makes sense for Manu to have the shots as a precautionary measure, but a very low % of the bat population carries the virus, he'd know if he'd been bitten (despite what someone else said - how can you get bitten by something and not know? ever been bitten by a mouse? you know about it!), and he washed his hands in antiseptic cream straight afterwards which would have killed any bacteria or viruses on his hands.
Storm in a freakin teacup.
Very, very rarely, and I'm pretty sure only by inhaling infected guano in caves. You can't magically get it in a situation like this where you've not bitten or breathing rabies-infected guano.
What a joke.
waaaaaaaahh waaaaaaaaah an itty bitty monstrous bat is going to take down Manu waaaaaaaaah
Venture out of suburbia ffs.
Well, we now know the bat probably survived. So, Peta can stuff it.
Manu can handle the shots.
Holy frijole, Batman....
Yes you can get bitten by something and not know you were bit. Personal experience to that fact has left a quarter size scar on my leg by being bitten by a Brown Recluse spider earlier in my life. Eventually I knew I was bit...but not at the time it happened.
This from here. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072702214.html
Bats' teeth are very fine. People sometimes don't know they've been bitten. (© Mic e Hamel -- Istockphoto)
Also
Also...I would like to know your credentials for your explanation. Mine are from experience and from dealing with various biologists throughout my life while growing up on a wildlife refuge.Rabies is extremely rare in people, though as many as 40,000 Americans get treatment every year to prevent the disease after coming into contact with an animal that might be infected. Bats are the source of most of the recent human cases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A biologist from Bat Conservation International told me that the vast majority of bats are rabies-free, but there are signs to watch for: Any bat that is active by day or unable to fly, the CDC says, is far more likely to be rabid.
97% of human rabies cases come from dog bites.[2]
The bat was active at night and flying around just fine, as we all saw. Stop fear-mongering.
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