Re: Rabies
[Re: NDtrapper777]
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12/05/23 12:25 AM
12/05/23 12:25 AM
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Posts: 6,658 NC, Orange Co.
QuietButDeadly
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Get the pre-exposure shots for your peace of mind and then get your titer checked. Different results for different folks. I know folks who had the pre-exposure series 20 or 30 years ago and their titer is still good. I had to get two additional boosters after the pre-exposure series to get my titer up to the recommended level.
The greatest danger of exposure is from contact with saliva from an animal that is infected. So bites or saliva on cuts or scratches is the biggest risk of exposure. Rabies is not blood borne so blood exposure is not an issue.
I agree with 330-Trapper.
Life Member: NCTA, VTA, NTA, TTFHA, MFTI Member: FTA NRA NWTF
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Re: Rabies
[Re: NDtrapper777]
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12/05/23 04:31 AM
12/05/23 04:31 AM
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Posts: 9,272 Alaska and Washington State
waggler
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I've also thought about this subject a bit.
All along the west coast of Alaska (the part that fronts on the Bering Sea) there are jillions of foxes, along with these foxes are rabies. Trappers have trapped trapped thousands and thousands of these foxes over the past several decades, and I've never heard of anyone contracting rabies from contact with one, and I'll bet 99% of these foxes have been skinned without latex gloves. FWIW.
"My life is better than your vacation"
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Re: Rabies
[Re: NDtrapper777]
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12/05/23 07:49 AM
12/05/23 07:49 AM
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Joined: Dec 2017
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You probably have a better chance of getting stuck by lightning than contracting rabies. Wear gloves and watch what you’re doing around trapped animals. We make choices everyday and those choices have risk associated with them. Get after them.
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Rabies
[Re: NDtrapper777]
#8012215
12/05/23 09:15 AM
12/05/23 09:15 AM
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Joined: Nov 2023
Posts: 378 Lake Mille Lacs , MN
2poor
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Use common sense and basic hygiene in the shed. Glove up and clean equipment as you proceed. You will be fine !
It’s a lazy man who can’t find his wife a second job !
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Re: Rabies
[Re: NDtrapper777]
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12/05/23 10:45 AM
12/05/23 10:45 AM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,726 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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I dont worry about it at all. Every 15-20 years there is a small outbreak,in those years I use common sense when skinning or handling carcasses. Like someone said much more of a chance being killed by a lightening strike while sitting in your Lazy boy than dying of rabies from trapping and fur handling. There are other pathogens you should be more worried about such as hydatids disease.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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