Patty report

[rm]

- No more snakes.

- It was a girl named Juhti not Judy. Oh my hearing and intercontinental calls. Sorry!

- The wild puppy died. *sadface*

- She had to go do object registration, so we're going to try again for a more than ten minute call tomorrow.

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Your partner has a very nifty career.

Ob-fret: Has Patty had a rabies vaccination along with her no-doubt enormous panoply of vaccinations? Because the endemic rabies rate in India is huge, and thousands of people die annually from rabies there -- and the main vector is feral/wild dogs.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know. Although yes, she's had a HUGE number of vaccinations, although I don't think she got any special ones for this trip. Now I'm going to fret (the puppy's cause of death is under debate, but seems to have been poisoning or plastic bag, so not rabies at least).

Now I fret!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I didn't really mean to make you fret! It's just that a lot of people don't think about this sort of thing. And in rural India, the proper prophylaxis is both expensive and difficult to obtain after an exposure.

I am, I admit, kind of a rabies geek, if there can be such a thing. It's morbid, I know, but.

If she has previously had a rabies vaccination, she wouldn't need one for this trip. The vaccinations hang around for a while. There was a case a few years ago where someone with rabies died of something else (a stroke, I think) and donated zir organs; the people who got the kidneys died, but the person who got the liver never developed the disease, and vaguely sort of recalled getting rabies prophylaxis 20+ years earlier.

(I'm sorry to hear about the puppy, though. :( )

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

When I was young, I wanted to become an archaeologist... as I'm not an outdoor person or very patient, it would have been the wrong career but I love living vicariously via Patty :D