Better Safe Than Sorry: Rabies Shot Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe getting rabies shots after a bite, a scratch or a night with a bat in the house. The animals include street dogs in Pune, Sri Lanka and Kathmandu, a fox in a Virginia garden, a raccoon in a Wisconsin garage, a kitten at a Chiang Mai guesthouse, temple monkeys in Indonesia and Lopburi, a flying fox, and a vampire bat in the Peruvian highlands. Writers include a dental hygienist, a goat herder in Oaxaca, a mail carrier, a veterinary technician already vaccinated for work, a wildlife carer, a bat group volunteer, a fourth-grade teacher, and a sixteen-year-old who hid a bite for a week. They describe long wound washing, immune globulin given on day six, a rural hospital that had none in stock, a schedule carried from Sydney to Chicago, shots during chemotherapy and at seven months pregnant, hives, and a terror of needles. Money runs through many accounts: bills that kept arriving, a denied claim, a cleaner with no insurance who waited. Some were first told they needed nothing; one went in three weeks after a cave trip. Most finished the series and went back to ordinary life, though one young woman describes anxiety that came afterwards, and one writer tells of a brother who never had the chance of treatment.

Who it's for

For anyone in a waiting room after a bite, a scratch or a bat in the bedroom, for parents and travellers, and for people who work with animals and want to hear how others handled it.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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