I just applied for a job. Wish me luck!
Good luck!
Honestly I've been trying to find out forever why rabies shots, particularly the older ones that involved a couple dozen jabs right in the stomach, had to be so insanely excruciating, why they couldn't just give you a normal shot, and I have. Had. No. Luck. Whatsoever. Seriously, why does this information seem to be hidden under lock and key? Was the guy who invented the thing just an evil sadist, what? If anybody knows this, please tell me, it's been driving me crazy!
Lazy8, I found
this article that might help you some with your questions (there was also
one that looked promising in the Lancet but I'm not subscribing or registering just to read that one article ugh. Basically, the vaccine given to pets, and humans at high risk of exposure, does not give 100% protection. Even after you're vaccinated, the virus is hard for the immune system to recognize quickly enough before the virus spreads to your nerve system. Therefore, if you do get exposed, you get those shots in the stomach that is not a vaccine at all, but treatment that contains ready-made specific immunoglobulin -what the body actually uses in order to recognize and kill pathogens effectively- (It works immediately by "flagging" the virus for the immune system to kill).
On top of that, you're given ordinary vaccine shots to help your immune system produce those immunoglobulins more quickly and effectively all by itself. I'f you're already vaccinated, you need fewer extra shots as the body will go "aha I've seen these ugly things before" more quickly. (I have no idea if this is too basic or not? I tend to forget what I knew and what not before I had microbiology classes some years ago)
And Pasteur is still one of my heroes.
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)
Aaah I'm glad I don't live close to a singing skyscraper like that! Fancy when viewed on a short video, not so fancy if it keeps me awake.