5th August 2022
Sometimes in the middle of a virus existence debate, someone blurts out, “What about rabies?”
Rabies is a terrifying condition that has haunted the human imagination for centuries. I’ll look into the science of rabies and explain why most of us don’t need to worry about it.
And get ready for our special guest narrator, who describes the questionable 1930s animal experiments.
References
- Corona Investigative Committee, “Session 90: The Virus Of Power”, 5 Feb 2022.
- AVMA, “Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2019”.
- CDC, “Rabies”.
- CDC, “About Rabies”.
- Wikipedia, “Rabies virus”.
- Dr Sam Bailey, “Electron Microscopy and Unidentified ‘Viral’ Objects”.
- Wikipedia, “Joseph Lennox Pawan”.
- Dr Joseph Pawan, “The Transmission of Paralytic Rabies in Trinidad by the Vampire Bat”, 1936.
- “Rabies: interactions between neurons and viruses. A review of the history of Negri inclusion bodies”, 1996.
- Gerald Geison, “Pasteur’s Work on Rabies: Reexamining the Ethical Issues”, 1978.
- Dr Montague Leverson, “English City of Leicester as example of benefits of abolition of vaccination”, 1909. Available as an E-book download here
- Mike Stone, “Louis Pasteur’s Unethical Rabies Fraud”, 25 Feb 2022.
- “Tetrodotoxin, an Extremely Potent Marine Neurotoxin: Distribution, Toxicity, Origin and Therapeutical Uses”, 2015.
- Blindsided by Rabies with Michael Wallach on the Skeptico Podcast
Thank you for this Dr. Bailey. This is the second time watching. The first time I did not properly process the information. Could be because for 43 years I vaccinated tens of thousands of domestic animals with various products, the most widely with Imrab3. The schedules never did make sense to me and telephone calls to the CDC thirty years ago did not unravel the puzzle, though a veterinarian there told me there were colleagues in Africa using it on themselves due to the unavailability of the human vaccine. It is disgusting for me to see how my foundational beliefs were sitting on nothing much. This too will pass.
Interesting historical account of a “rabies cure” aka “drawing out the poison” from a bitten individual’s wound with sacred stones and … magnesia?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mad-stones-rabies-cure-eerie-feeling