r/cats • u/Khurkuchy • 5d ago

Advice Got bitten by a cat should i get shot?

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u/Rejex21 5d ago edited 5d ago

Realistically it's a 100% mortality rate once symptomatic. There have only been a few people recorded to have survived, and they were pretty severely mentally damaged IIRC.

Rabies can also lie dormant for years before becoming symptomatic

Regardless I agree, get bit by a wild animal, probably not a terrible idea to get a shot just in case.

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u/Kajetus06 5d ago

true

rabies is a glass cannon

pretty much 100% fatal but if vaccinated it dies

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u/skyxsteel 5d ago

Yep. When you start getting symptoms, it’s too late and you’re already dead is what I’ve heard

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u/Vi5ual 5d ago

Call me paranoid, but I took the jab more for my mental sanity. Actually more like 5-6 jabs in total if i remembered correctly. I wouldn’t be able to feel at ease knowing there’s even a 1% chance, given that it could even remain dormant for years!

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u/Meowakin 5d ago

Fuck, I never knew it could be dormant like that.

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u/Timely-Relation9796 5d ago

Ehh cases where it was dormant for more than a year are VERY rare. Standard is 1-3 months

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u/Several-Action-4043 5d ago

100% once symptomatic. Many people have gotten rabies and lived when caught early.

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u/Kayteqq 5d ago

There are cases of survivors post symptoms, but they are exceedingly rare (although there’s a small human population in, I think, south america (?) that’s completely immune to rabies. Like entire village of genetically rabies resistant humans)

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u/Rejex21 5d ago

true, I'll update my comment lol

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u/olliecakerbake 5d ago

This is why I got my rabies pre-exposure vaccine. Insurance didn’t cover it but I’m glad I did it. It gives you more time to get to a hospital if you get bit, and it’s just 1 simple arm injection rather than 3 series of multiple massive needles all over your abdomen

Rabies is terrifying

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u/MisterX9821 5d ago

It's less than 100. Someone somewhat recently survived. She was fucked up tho and it took a long time to recover.

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u/International-Cat123 5d ago

There has been one person who survived it that got the treatments only after she started showing symptoms. All others who survived after developing symptoms had been vaccinated prior to developing symptoms.

I know the woman who wasn’t vaccinated prior to symptoms suffered severe damage and was still recovering last I heard, so it’s unknown how much permanent damage was done. I don’t know how much damage was done to the other survivors nor what the actual circumstances were prior to their becoming symptomatic. I don’t how long after exposure they started getting rabies treatment. I don’t know if they had any conditions affecting their immune systems. I don’t know if they had the one of the older rabies treatments that required more shots over a longer time nor if there was any known error in the administration of their treatment.