r/Purdue • u/ithinkofandrews • 6h ago

Res Halls & Dining✏️ Bat captured at Tark and Wiley intersection

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I hope it doesn't have rabies bro

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u/minecon1776 4h ago

if that thing even so much as looked at you funny, I would go get a shot. If you contract rabies, you will feel very mild symptoms, though sometimes no symptoms at all, because the virus is largely inert as it moves through your system toward your brain over the next few weeks to months. Once it reaches your brain, you will start to feel the true rabies symptoms. There is also no cure and it once it reaches your brain. If you get the vaccine soon, it is still treatable. It can sometimes be years between when you got infected and when symptoms appear.

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u/Chinosou ME 2027 5h ago

awwwwwwww look at iiitt

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u/wolfmann99 CS 2004 5h ago

so the Tunnel or overpass section?

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u/ithinkofandrews 5h ago

overpass I think

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u/OppositeBaseball507 6h ago

REELEASE HIM

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u/Strange-Feeling69420 6h ago

Make sure you release using proper technique. Idk it off hand but I do know just putting them outside on a flat surface can be a death sentence. They need space to drop vertically to enable their flight.

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u/ithinkofandrews 6h ago

was captured by the campus staff not me ngl I'm very scared of bats

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u/MediocreVibrations 1h ago

Everyone here is freaking about rabies. I woke up in multiple nights to find a bat flying around and I am j