Please help new fear of rabies

[Adel]

Four days ago I read about rabies on the internet and now I’m freaking out. I had known about rabies before I read it but I just hadn’t cared about it. Now I know that if the symptoms appear there is no cure. Three days ago when I was in forest something was on my leg. I think it has bitten me. I waved it off with my hand. I don’t know if it was insect or a bat. I’m trying to tell myself I would see it if it was a bad but I feel like I’m lying myself. I felt more like it jumped on my from the grass and it was so fast that I didn’t see it flying away. I photo the bite please write me if it is normal mosquito bite or something else.

 

[Jholl]

Is it itchy? It looks like an insect bite, 100%

 

[Adel]

Is it itchy? It looks like an insect bite, 100%

yes it itches badly

 

[Vincent]

I have no idea what a bat bite looks like, so I can't help with the picture. It sounds like you were freaked out by that rabies article, and your mind went into "what if" mode. I've done that a lot.

A few years ago I saw a documentary about rabies, and it still freaks me out. A few months ago, I was taking an evening walk in my neighborhood. It got dark, and I was on a section of the street that wasn't lit when I felt something very lightly contact my leg as it flew by. It felt like an insect, but my mind went right to "what if it was a bat?"

 

[Adel]

I have no idea what a bat bite looks like, so I can't help with the picture. It sounds like you were freaked out by that rabies article, and your mind went into "what if" mode. I've done that a lot.

A few years ago I saw a documentary about rabies, and it still freaks me out. A few months ago, I was taking an evening walk in my neighborhood. It got dark, and I was on a section of the street that wasn't lit when I felt something very lightly contact my leg as it flew by. It felt like an insect, but my mind went right to "what if it was a bat?"

Yes you are absolutely right. I even have seen bat shadow today. Rabies is an illness we all know like if a dog you don’t know bites you go to hospital. But if you learn about 100% untreated mortality it frightens you.