No, I won’t expose myself to rabies because I know there is a disease-causing agent transmitted from other species that infects humans with a deadly condition we call rabies that is 90% fatal and could kill me if I am first exposed and then infected (these 2 scenarios are mutually exclusive). Although exposure doesn’t guarantee infection, and sometimes transmission appears to be via bites, saliva or blood, I would still not want to contract the disease rabies. My point about medications isn’t the thrust of my position except to say I would reserve the right to ignore the advice of mainstream (Western) medicine. What I am saying is that whatever causes the disease rabies in humans, and transmits it from other species to humans, but obviously not between humans, isn’t conclusively a virus. Given other modes of transmission and types of pathogen and causes of disease we do and don’t know about, virus is low down in the possibilities.
No, I won’t expose myself to rabies because I know there is a disease-causing agent transmitted from other species that infects humans with a deadly condition we call rabies that is 90% fatal and could kill me if I am first exposed and then infected (these 2 scenarios are mutually exclusive). Although exposure doesn’t guarantee infection, and sometimes transmission appears to be via bites, saliva or blood, I would still not want to contract the disease rabies. My point about medications isn’t the thrust of my position except to say I would reserve the right to ignore the advice of mainstream (Western) medicine. What I am saying is that whatever causes the disease rabies in humans, and transmits it from other species to humans, but obviously not between humans, isn’t conclusively a virus. Given other modes of transmission and types of pathogen and causes of disease we do and don’t know about, virus is low down in the possibilities.