Started Rabies shots.

Originally Posted By: DoubleCKWe are currently experiencing a Rabies Epidemic in our gray fox here in Arizona. Several people have been bitten and had to go through the shot series. The gray fox reacts in two ways to the virus one is a lethargic behavior and the other is as a bitter.

I called one in last month. It ran right past the caller and bit my pardner. The fox came around to me and was discouraged with a hand full of Sonoran gravel in the face. I turned on the e caller and the fox attacked it.

The fox seemed perfectly healthy and we took quite a bit of video of it attacking the caller. That video now belongs to FoxPro and they have posted some of it on Facebook.

My pardner got the shots. I killed the fox and it tested positive for rabies.

AGAIN: It appeared in every way to be perfectly healthy.



A normal healthy fox doesn't run in and attack two hunters. When the fox ran past the caller and bit your partner and then attacked you - that's a sign something is way wrong.
 
Originally Posted By: spotstalkshootI am also not to concerned that it could be Rabies, I think more they cta since they couldn't id the infection. Rabies spreads about 1cm a day. The nerve issues also make Rabies prevention a priority. Often wildlife personnel will utilize Rabies vaccination. More specialists to see tomorrow. Today much better than earlier in the week. Thanks for reading.

Please post an update! I hope you have a quick recovery.

And please, if you are not clearly getting better, GET YOURSELF TO MAYO if you aren't already being treated there. Do not wait if you're not clearly getting better. Mayo has vast resources and far greater expertise when it comes to diagnosing what other doctors struggle with. My uncle was on death's door 3 years ago because he was misdiagnosed and had been treated for months for the wrong condition by his local doctors. He was hauled down to may as a last resort. Mayo doctors figured out what was really wrong with him within a day and he walked out of there cured a week later.

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Originally Posted By: GCOriginally Posted By: DoubleCKWe are currently experiencing a Rabies Epidemic in our gray fox here in Arizona. Several people have been bitten and had to go through the shot series. The gray fox reacts in two ways to the virus one is a lethargic behavior and the other is as a bitter.

I called one in last month. It ran right past the caller and bit my pardner. The fox came around to me and was discouraged with a hand full of Sonoran gravel in the face. I turned on the e caller and the fox attacked it.

The fox seemed perfectly healthy and we took quite a bit of video of it attacking the caller. That video now belongs to FoxPro and they have posted some of it on Facebook.

My pardner got the shots. I killed the fox and it tested positive for rabies.

AGAIN: It appeared in every way to be perfectly healthy.



A normal healthy fox doesn't run in and attack two hunters. When the fox ran past the caller and bit your partner and then attacked you - that's a sign something is way wrong.

Yes. The very reason we killed the fox and sent it in for testing. And the very reason my pardner immediately started on the shot protocol.
 
Originally Posted By: GC

AGAIN: It appeared in every way to be perfectly healthy.



Originally Posted By: DoubleCK
A normal healthy fox doesn't run in and attack two hunters. When the fox ran past the caller and bit your partner and then attacked you - that's a sign something is way wrong.

I agree with that, I've seen more than a couple animals with the virus, in the late stages. If I called in Coyote and he blazed past the call and attacked myself or partner, then randomly went back to the call I would definitely get shots no questions asked, simply because that animal is not acting normal... However if it did respond to the call, it would be a learning experience for me, which is a good thing... Even though they may be on their last leg each animal can respond differently, and can see and react enough to attack people or other animals. I still wouldn't of thought that an animal in the infectious stage would have responded to the call knowing what it was doing.

I shot a skunk two years ago that woke from hibernation under a brush pile, and came back a couple hours later to find another skunk on top of the one I shot, biting it repeatedly. I would say that's definitely not normal, but the second skunk still managed to find the first and climb on it biting it over and over.
 
We are pretty sure the coyote had been traveling about 2 miles round trip to a bait station, came in at night. Wounded(22-250) and I tracked it for the shooter,36 ish hours later. It appeared normal to shooter,at night with natural light only. I never mentioned it until they could not id infection and wanted much more extensive background info. Also informed them about station material. Today was more blood work at a infectious diseases clinic.
 
I hope you get better soon. Thanks for sharing, I often have to try to remind myself to be careful, you just helped remind me some of what could happen.
 
Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Myself, my son and a friend had the rabies series a few years ago over an inconclusive test on a steer we handled. Within 5 minutes of the vet calling to inform us of the inconclusive test, we had 3 phone calls from state and federal agencies demanding that we get to the ER to start our shots. The vaccine is so expensive the hospitals are the only ones to keep it on hand. The biggest pain to these shots was to the pocket book. $12,000 for three of us. Insurance paid for $5000 of it.
 
Originally Posted By: flintrockBest wishes for a speedy recovery. Myself, my son and a friend had the rabies series a few years ago over an inconclusive test on a steer we handled. Within 5 minutes of the vet calling to inform us of the inconclusive test, we had 3 phone calls from state and federal agencies demanding that we get to the ER to start our shots. The vaccine is so expensive the hospitals are the only ones to keep it on hand. The biggest pain to these shots was to the pocket book. $12,000 for three of us. Insurance paid for $5000 of it.

Insurance and the medical industry are out of control...
 
Originally Posted By: GCOriginally Posted By: flintrockBest wishes for a speedy recovery. Myself, my son and a friend had the rabies series a few years ago over an inconclusive test on a steer we handled. Within 5 minutes of the vet calling to inform us of the inconclusive test, we had 3 phone calls from state and federal agencies demanding that we get to the ER to start our shots. The vaccine is so expensive the hospitals are the only ones to keep it on hand. The biggest pain to these shots was to the pocket book. $12,000 for three of us. Insurance paid for $5000 of it.

Insurance and the medical industry are out of control...

Modern day criminals.
 
What ever it is I wish you the best. Four years ago I had a bug bite that wouldn't heal. Ended up in the ER on two intravenous antibiotics for eight days. They never could tell me what it was(other than that it had caused septic shock) but they did kill it.
Good luck.
 
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It doesn't sound like a rabies exposure.

One time I handled some dead coons, then about an hour or more later grabbed my diaphragm with my gloves and popped it into my mouth. The next day I started thinking, which led to a lot of research. I'm pretty sure if infected fluids are dried it's not considered an exposure to the virus. Likewise, exposure from anything besides a bite requires a lot of factors to be perfect. Infected mucuous, saliva, or nerve tissue would almost have to instantly hit your eye, open wound, mouth, etcetera. Also, I think in order for the saliva to be infectious it must first reach the salival glands, which I believe is at the foaming stage.

Anyway, hope you get better! Keep us updated!
 
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