rabies anxiety

Hi, so a bat got into my place of work on Sunday. It ended up flying on my leg (I was wearing jeans) and crawling up it until my coworker got it off, etc. My boss told us to release it so we did. To my knowledge, neither of us was bit and other than it flying onto my leg, neither of us touched...

Hello everyone I’m new to this, i actually stumbled across this website when I was doing my now routinely rabies google search, I’ve developed this intense obsession over this horrible disease. Ever since December 30th when I was on my way to a New Year’s Eve party and I swore up and down that I...

Hi y’all, so i will try explain why i am worried. Today my kitchen drawer where we store knives and forks, got stuck because a large knife was stuck in the drawer and it was not opening properly. So i had to put my hand in there to try to move the knife and after 25 minutes it worked. Now after...

I was walking out of a convenience store at a populated rest stop and walked underneath a large tree. A very tiny drop of something hit my lower lip, could this have been saliva from a bat? I didn’t see any bats. For context it was a sunny day at 2pm in Florida and this was a populated rest...

23 F USA hi guys :( im a major hypochondriac & have been suffering the past 2 weeks. about two weeks ago, i woke up with a stiff neck. this led me to freak out & assume i had meningitis. the stiff neck subsided, but i started to get a pretty bad headache, one that weaned in and out, all around...

so on october 26 i touched a trash bag directly where a raccoon ripped it open in the middle of the night. i don’t know if he did it with his teeth or hands. regardless i had a cut in my pinky that i got on october 25 (the day prior) and i had no clue if i touched the bag or not. the raccoon...

I'm writing this because I don't know how else to deal with the impending doom. On the 25th of August 2022, I brought home a 2-month old bunny. Because she did not come from the cleanest place, I brought her to vet on 2nd of September just to make sure everything checked out. Everything was...

I'll keep this short because I want to make it concise -- I work on a farm and the TL;DR of it is that I was closing tobacco sheds earlier this evening when my sister and her friend (who were also closing the sheds) had an encounter with a bat that flew at them that may or may not have been...

Hello everyone, I've had an irrational fear of rabies for as long as I can remember. Recently, I was cleaning out my basement when I felt something hit my back. I was wearing earbuds at the time so I didn't hear anything from my surroundings. Now, I'm concerned it could've been from a rabid bat...

I had 2 little puncture marks on my hand that appeared just under 2 weeks ago; a few days before I went on holiday to the isle of whyte (is that how you spell it?) but just recently in the uk there was a heat wave, of which I was on the beach for quite a while which I am fairly certain has given...

Hi guys I’m scared of rabies but my family thinks I’m irrational. So when I was on holiday in Turkey near Didim we would take a walk by the sea through beaches and collect sea shells. It was about 10 in the morning when I was about to pick one near some black object I interpreted it as a sea...

Hello, i have posted before here when i had a kinda valid concern that i had contracted rabies from a scratch from a stray cat. Now that this danger is gone and this cat is still fine almost a month later i find myself still scared to death by rabies, all the info i learnt while researching are...

hello fellow health anxiety sufferers, my story is really classic. I am from greece where we have A LOT of strays, everyone pets them especially cats and they go and sit on everyone and ask for food etc. So, 15 days ago i was scratched on my hand by a cat i was petting, it was a minor scratch...

Hello I live in the Philippines. About 8 days ago I had a bat encounter, I was out buying beer for my dad around dusk and when I got back my sister screamed that there was a bat on my back and climbing up to my neck(I was wearing a shirt at the time). Of course, I didn't felt it was on my back...

Hi everyone, I have never had anxiety until the past year. I had my 3rd child and developed pretty severe health anxiety about myself, husband, and kids. Its been very difficult. About 10 days ago a bat came into my bedroom. I was awake luckily, and with the help of a neighbor we got the...

I sometimes sleep in balcony. I have two little bruise. I have anxiety about bat bite and got rabies so much. I’m so nervous and scared. Could this be a bat bite? Please help

So a few days ago I noticed I had what looked to be a bite mark on top of my foot. Since then it's scabbed over and hurts to touch ... I'm absolutely terrified this is a possible bat bite! I know rationally I have not encountered a bat (to my knowledge) and we have not found a bat in our home...

Woke up with this on me and worried about a bat bite. Now I’m hyper focusing on it!

So Tbh I AM anxious about rabies , cuz 2 months ago I had touched a normal street dog (alive till now) and the ate food without Washing hands so i had a fear about it and became so anxious that i went depressed for a month, after 20 days of that day (I went to give some food to street dogs and...

Yesterday myy dog jumped on my bed and licked my whole face while I was sleeping. I am worried about rabies. The dog is vaccinated but what If the vaccine failed? The dog was in rural area about 4 weeks ago with my grandma and I am not sure If she got bitten by a rabid animal. I wouldn't be...