Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Largest Bat Colony in the WORLD?!?!
An almost pointless thing I learned while studying viruses for Microbiology tonight. Austin, TX hosts the world's largest bat colony. Bats are really big carriers of rabies in the US. So if your patient comes in foaming at the mouth or in a stupor and happened to have been bit (bitten?) by a bat in Austin, TX they might have rabies.
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at that point you may as well take them out back and use the shotgun, as that will most likely kill on the first blow (gotta be humane here).
Trip is also reading about bat colonies in one of his first grade books. "Bracken Cave is home to 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats." Good to know the 1st graders at Madison Avenue are learning the same thing you are in med school.
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