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Not a real new story, but I don't recall reading it on here:
We don't realize that other countries don't protect their animals the way we do here in the US.
The incubation period for rabies can be fair long...one to three months"
Rabies Incubation Period
Transmission of rabies does not require a bite, just exposure to saliva of an infected animal which gets into an open wound.
We don't realize that other countries don't protect their animals the way we do here in the US.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Had Army Spc. Kevin Shumaker died from a mortar blast or insurgent fire while serving in Afghanistan, that would be devastating but fathomable.
Instead, the decorated 24-year-old from Livermore, Calif., was dealt a fatal blow in January while breaking up, of all things, a dogfight at his remote Afghanistan base.
Eight months after a stray dog bit his hand, Shumaker died from rabies in a New York hospital, the only death this year in the United States from the rare and very treatable disease.
Shumaker told his parents he was treated for rabies at the base, but the series of injections was not completed.
His family members, who live in Castro Valley, Calif., want answers from the Army as to how Shumaker died from such a preventable disease and to make sure no more soldiers meet the same fate.
"I would not be without my son if the proper treatment was given to Kevin," his mother, Elaine Taylor, said Wednesday. "Rabies is 100 percent preventable with the right vaccine, but without that treatment you die.
"If he would have died from an enemy attack, we would've been devastated, but we knew he was in harm's way when he was deployed."
The incubation period for rabies can be fair long...one to three months"
Rabies Incubation Period
Transmission of rabies does not require a bite, just exposure to saliva of an infected animal which gets into an open wound.