# If You Had Rabies... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247 "2006-05-03T16:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/1 "2006-05-03T16:09:09Z")
Not gonnorhea, syphillis or scabes. Rabies. Foaming. Raving. Fiery eyed. Full-on Rabies. You’re absolutely mad about living. 😃 Maybe from a bat-bite or from a bad Oreo or something. What wopuld you do? Because… _ **: BITE :** _ BBBwwwaaaa ha hahahahahhahahahaha ! ! ! ! ! \*Skips off into the undergrowth \* ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/2 "2006-05-03T16:55:11Z")
Sometimes, a thread goes a way you never expect. And sometimes, Inigo loses his marbles. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/3 "2006-05-03T16:56:36Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > Sometimes, a thread goes a way you never expect. And sometimes, Inigo loses his marbles. Sometimes both happen at once… Still love ya, man. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/4 "2006-05-03T17:02:20Z")
[Nelson] Ha ha! [/Nelson] I’ve had my rabies shots. No rabies for me! [sub]I hope.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/5 "2006-05-03T17:07:39Z")
> [@](#): > > **Course in Humans:** > After an incubation period of some weeks the infected person usually becomes depressed, anxious, and irritable; has difficulty breathing and swallowing; and is extremely thirsty but cannot drink. Terror, vomiting, and fever follow, as thick mucus collects in the mouth and throat. This stage lasts three to five days and usually results in death. Where’s Louis Pasteur when ya need 'im? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/6 "2006-05-03T17:11:13Z")
Why? Does he know where we keep the straight jackets? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/7 "2006-05-03T17:17:29Z")
Well, hopefully the vomiting will cure the extreme thirstyness. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/8 "2006-05-03T17:28:06Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Where’s Louis Pasteur when ya need 'im? Great–thanks for this. Now I’ll have all these symptoms for the next 24 to 48 hours. I shouldn’t have had that Oreo last night… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/9 "2006-05-03T17:28:34Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Why? Does he know where we keep the straight jackets? 😃 Pasteur developed the first successful rabies vaccine. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/10 "2006-05-03T17:34:26Z")
Do you take requests to bite people? What do you charge per person? I’ve got a list of people I’d like you to bite… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/11 "2006-05-03T17:36:04Z")
Another interesting rabies tidbit. In animals (other than humans) rabies takes one of two forms: furious or dumb. Furious rabies follows a course identical to the course found in humans. With dumb rabies, the irritability stage is very short, or absent altogether, and paralysis comes on earlier attacking the jaws and larynx. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/12 "2006-05-03T20:41:13Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Pasteur developed the first successful rabies vaccine. I KNOW that! It was a joke… Do you remember irony? Not so much like goldy and silvery, but useful, none the less… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/13 "2006-05-03T20:54:54Z")
So, Mr. Montoya, you’re leaving… (I remember the long goodbye) and… you want to take innocent posters out with you. Cruel (April is the cruelest month, not sure where May ranks), just cruel. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/14 "2006-05-03T20:56:28Z")
The jokes on you! I was vaccinated against Rabies!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-rabies/355247/15 "2006-05-03T21:17:47Z")
Too late, I’ve had [Rabies](http://cgi.ebay.com/Skinny-Puppy-Rabies-CD-industrial-ministry-nin-goth-NEW_W0QQitemZ4872261758QQcategoryZ1572QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) for years. Thanks anyway, though.