My dog's sister died at age two or three because the owner didn't vaccinate her. I think she died of kennel cough.
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I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. π
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I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.
I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years...
Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It's been a bit of a weird year, and there's been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.
Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.
Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
Just tossing this out here as a PSA, dogs can still get kennel cough even after being vaccinated. It's like the flu vaccine in humans - sometimes the strain that goes around isn't the one vaccinated for. I had two dogs end up with it and both were fully current on all vaccines. They got it from daycare where an outbreak occurred and our older dog brought it home to the puppy. All dogs there are required to show proof of current vaccines to go so it was just an unfortunate year for the vaccine. Fortunately my dogs got over it with meds and rest for a couple of weeks. Sorry about your sisters dog, that's heartbreaking.
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The treatment for rabies is a vaccine so I hope these people stick to their beliefs and if they get infected they refuse the vaccine. The fatality rate for rabies is 100%.
Just left a comment about this. People really have gotten too comfortable with modernity and its ivory walls. We really need to show more idiots videos of people suffering from preventable diseases a la "red pavement" from driver's ed.
Dumbest nation on earth.
Let's be real. This is the reason Conservatives and anti vaxxers fear autism.
Is he even autistic?
I'm pretty sure a while back he mentioned he was diagnosed with Asperger's, whether it is true I don't know. I don't doubt it highly
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They fear autism from vaccines so much that they became retarded instead.
"Stupidity is not a right..."
This is so stupid that it makes me think maybe the "great filter" (the reason we don't see space-faring civilizations everywhere) is actually that life forms who evolved by fighting for survival and going through natural selection cannot psychologically handle a post-scarcity society. It's like when the threats disappear everybody forgets they exist even if they are well documented historically.
Related: if you don't know about how horrifying a disease is, go search for some articles and copypasta about it. Congrats on being one of today's (un)lucky 10,000!
People donβt want to give their dog heart worm/flea protection because they are worried it leads to seizures.
I had to explain why they should continue to do it so many times on Facebook. The benefits out way the risk by such a great magnitude that it should be a no-brainer.
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(haha fuck i am so glad i left that shithole)
The brainworm won. And while Im not a fan of eugenics... I think america needs to do the rest of the world a solid and sterilize that 37% to protect the human race.
Fun fact: Rabies is pretty much the most-lethal disease ever. A diagnosis is an absolute death sentence, followed by an agonizing death.
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Roughly corresponding to the bottom third of the IQ spectrum, with an assortment of "below average" folks thrown in for good measure.
Regardless of how bizarre this is the implied message is "I'd rather see my kid die of a virus than have any autism."
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How can you tell a dog with autism from a dog that does not have it?
Itβs wagging its tail and itβs a good boy.