TIL that NYC keeps an updated list of every confirmed rabid animal found within the city
www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/ra...
www1.nyc.govPosted Oct 14, 2022, 3:55 AM UTC
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www1.nyc.govThat’s wild in 2018 there was an opossum. I legit thought they couldn’t get rabies due to body temperature
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It's rare but not impossible for them.
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It’s…really crazy that rabies is even in a place like NYC when you think about how deadly it is. Like, once you start exhibiting symptoms, you’re as good as dead and there’s basically nothing anybody can do to help you. I get that it’s endemic and will probably be around forever in some capacity, but it’s freaky to me knowing how a raccoon in New York City carries one of the most lethal diseases we know of
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Rabies is everywhere, man. If someone wants to help, they should vaccinate their animals against it.
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Only lasts for about two weeks if I remember right. Vaccine isn't permanent.
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Rabies vaccine for domesticated cats and dogs is good for three years, with the exception of the first two shots being administered a year apart. All rabies vaccines in the United States must be rated for three years of protection, but some municipalities require a booster every year regardless.
You might be thinking of human immunoglobulin and vaccine as post-exposure prophylaxis. If you were bit by a rabid animal, then you would receive the immunoglobulin as soon as possible, and then the vaccine is given in four doses over a two week period.
After that point, I’m not sure how long the antibodies last, but it wouldn’t really matter unless you are in a high-risk group. So really only people who work with the virus in labs or frequently handle high-risk animals (particularly bats). And in that case you’d be on a pre-exposure prophylaxis vaccination schedule already.
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While I don't want to be dismissive about it, it is somewhat comforting to know that the majority of discovered NYC cases are in raccoons, and raccoon -> human transmission is apparently extremely rare.
Bats can DIAF though. They're scary as fuck when it comes to diseases.
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No that’s actually comforting to know raccoon-human transmission is rare tbh. Cause I was like holy shit that’s way more raccoons than I expected lol
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manhattan is chilling
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It's not the animals that are rabid there
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Humans are technically animals though
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there was a big outbreak in central park maybe 10 years ago and the DOH went on a massive vaccine drop campaign. That's not to say raccoons don't wander over the bridges sometimes, they probably do. But they try to keep it eradicated in Manhattan.
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bro why so many in ridgewood im fucked
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And our 1 raccoon in Brooklyn was obviously a Queens resident that wandered out of his borough smh
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Proximity to Forest Park, there was an outbreak there not too long ago. They are in Glendale and Woodhaven too. They started a vaccine drop in September.
There was a similar outbreak in Central Park like 10 years ago.
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Yeah in 2010. The map is insane on there.
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Damn I miss the old crazy raccoon from the summer of 2008 in Ft Greene Park 🦝 it was a community affair, a pre-economic collapse, truly Democratic moment of civil society that brought everyone together.
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I volunteer for an animal rescue and the one time I got bit trying to catch an injured feral cat, the Dept of Health followed up pretty often. I never caught the feral, but it wasn't exhibiting any neurological symptoms. The personnel at the emergency room told me even raccoon to human transmission was extremely rare, whereas feral cat to human transmission was unheard of in the last 70 years of so. They only reccomended rabies antivirals if I could say the cat had any of the hallmark symptoms of rabies or DOH could confirm rabies with a necropsy. I did take a tetnus booster though.
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Idk, I'm just hella paranoid of rabies. Probably would've gotten a vaccine in case. But that may also be cuz I don't volunteer at an animal rescue so I don't have your cool.
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eh. husband works in animal rescue in NYC and is used to handling cantankerous animals. but he was bit by a newly surrendered dog (whose owners had not been up front about behavior) that didn't have a record of any vaccinations and the city "made" him get the rabies vaccines (obviously, he could have refused, but he wasn't going to risk that, as low as the risk was).
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Is Pat Lynch on there somewhere?
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Well that's horrifying. I happen to walk by a few of these places.
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No Squirrels ???
I've known 2 people who had to get rabies shots from being bitten by Squirrels...
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Is "NYC Swagger" a symptom? or what about "NY strong" ?
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I saw 2 raccoons in my back yard in bed stuy in July via my security camera. They were on my deck digging through a planter. I immediately purchased a pest alarm to keep them away. Haven’t seen them since and hope to not have any direct encounters with them.
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Wow, an opossum carrying rabies?? Apparently that is extremely rare.
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That 2010 outbreak in central park is INSANE. Over 100 raccoons!
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Possibly rabid raccoon on Caton yesterday.
It was wandering around during the daytime in an obvious stupor....then collapsed on the sidewalk and was just twitching. People called it in but it was still there an hour later when I walked by again. Really sad.
But also potentially dangerous. Lota of kids and pets walking by there.
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They haven’t caught me yet