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Gluttony and the guillotine

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If you live in the continental United States and get bitten by a bat, or a raccoon, or a fox, your doctor will probably advise you to go and get rabies shots. Rabies isn’t common, but it’s common enough that about 100,000 people go through the preventative protocol every year. This process is no joke. First you do a PCR test, then you get injected with immunoglobin at every site where the skin is punctured, […]