Your reminder that rabies has no symptoms until it's too late, and its a awful disease to die of. If you find a bat in your house and there is any chance it bit you (sometimes its hard to tell), go get a rabies shot series

That's terrible. Poor kid.

Once the symptoms start it's almost always too late. Especially if not treated correctly right away, as in this case.

I thought everyone was vaccinated against rabies in Canada. The article doesn't mention if he was vaccinated.

God, that's awful. Rabies has always terrified me... no symptoms until it's too late, and fatal basically 100% of the time. Rabies prophylaxis can be a pain, but if a wild animal has broken your skin or licked broken skin, or if you wake up with a bat in the room with you, contact a doctor immediately.

Also, most rabies deaths occur in people who have more limited ability to access healthcare. Consider supporting https://rabiesalliance.org/ to fight this incredibly, unspeakably awful, completely preventable with timely treatment disease.

Jesus how awful