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I have to agree with you, jumping on the rabies thread, but I also have to
disagree with you.
First, you are right about the Gulf War vets. I'm one, spent 8 months in
Saudi Arabia (Oct 90 to May 91). We were vaccinated for EVERYTHING..just to
name a few...meningitis, typhus, typhoid, plague, dengue fever, yellow
fever.........plus we were also given a lot of experimental stuff (and urged
to NOT record it in our shot records, an order I refused to obey...and
therefor have it on record). We were given vaccines for Ebola fever, (yes,
EBOLA fever....) Lassa fever, anthrax...on top of all this we were given the
vaccine equivalent of a nuclear bomb...the "silver bullet", gamma globulin.
(three times for me..............)

Now I don't want the "experts" out there telling me that since I don't have
DVM after my name that I am full of squash. You weren't there so you don't
know what went on to the runof the mill soldier. Officers didn't have to get
the vaccines if they didn't want them, and officers are the only ones the
media ever talks to.

I have had cancer, numerous muscle problems (adhesive capsulitis, muscle
dystonia, unexplained muscle spasms and tremors) and neurological wierds
that keep the doctors scratching their heads. I don't care what the
"experts" with mucho years of college under their belts say...all those
vaccines screwed my immune system up so badly that only in the last year have
I begun to feel normal. We were treated like guinea pigs, and when the guinea
pigs started complaining the "experts" told us we were imagining
it....probably because admitting they used and abused us will be grounds for
costing the government a whole lot of money to fix us. (let's never mind the
ethical dilemna of using us because they could..ethics don't go far these
days.............)

But Trish, rabies is different. Rabies affects ALL mammals. ANY mammal can
carry it, be it a platypus or a porpoise. It's not very likely that one, you
will run into a rabid platypus in Michigan (I was born and raised there, so I
know there's no platypusses ((platypusi??) there, or two that one will bite
you (they have no teeth)
.
(BTW, there ARE coyotes in Michigan, my dad has them living in the back 80).
The chances of running into a rabid skunk, fox, cat, dog, raccoon, possum,
etc are much better. I agree that overvaccinating our animals or ourselves is
not a wise idea, but rabies IS one that should be administered.

It's just a peace of mind issue. There has been ONE human survivor, a
little girl who was bitten in Texas, (I think)..but..............if you have
ever read anything by Edgar Allen Poe, you will know how very strange and
disturbed that guy was. He was the Stephen King of his day, and his stuff is
still very dark, very morbid, and very very disturbing. For years he was
thought to have been a raving drunk, but recently a test was done on his
remains and it was found that E. A. Poe was rabid, and eventually died a very
painful death from it. He'd incubated the virus for years. Was his writing
the result of the rabies virus eating away his brain?? I don't know, and I
don't want to know. Rabies is such a painful disease, a vaccination is just a
cheap form of insurance against a gruesome and certain death.

Just my four cents (two soapboxes worth).
Michelle

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