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delichon 4 hours ago [-]
> The injured fisherman in today’s attack, a 19-year-old male, appeared to have sustained a bite to the ankle and transported himself
A disease that propagates itself by making animals want to bite other animals. I suppose rabies is the base phenomenon behind the zombie meme. It's also a good description of a large fraction of social media posts.
neaden 34 minutes ago [-]
The issue there is that the modern Zombie myth of an undead creature that spreads by biting only dates back to 1968.
atomicnumber3 32 minutes ago [-]
previous iterations were clearly not cool enough of a fantasy to be propagated
mwcz 19 minutes ago [-]
I think you just invented epimemetics.
Razengan 3 hours ago [-]
It's amazing how microorganisms, including that Cordyceps fungus, can "control" macro nervous systems so specifically..
sva_ 1 hours ago [-]
With rabies I'm not sure it is really control in the sense that it makes the host find victims, but rather that your neurons get damaged in a way that causes immense agitation and the biting is almost a reflex to "defend" yourself as you're incapable of processing what is happening.
> Beaver food flavoring doesn't actually come from the animal's anal gland but from another organ next to it, called the castor sac.
I still wouldn't try it, myself.
bogzz 3 hours ago [-]
The nuance takes some of the humor out of the notion of eating beaver ass, though.
That weighty tail hides a delectable treat.
caminante 2 hours ago [-]
Humor is still there.
You're eating beaver back sac.
adzm 4 hours ago [-]
Confirmed rabies positive by the way.
lenerdenator 2 hours ago [-]
Good thing he went to the doctor. Potential rabies is one of those "you gotta do it" deals.
ChrisMarshallNY 49 minutes ago [-]
I had the rabies vaccinations, when I was a kid. A schoolmate brought infected guinea pigs to school. Dozens of us had to get the shots.
17 shots: 15 shots, and 2 boosters.
lithocarpus 4 hours ago [-]
"Beaver attacks on people are rare and are thought to primarily involve rabid animals" - the article
jambalaya8 31 minutes ago [-]
I know this is a serious thing, and beavers can seriously maul someone, but this post title/headline still made me laugh. Am I going to hell (well, for that)?
tomcam 4 hours ago [-]
"Beaver Attack" was not on my 2026 Hacker News headline bingo card
My little brother was attacked once in France by a coypu. Needed medical attention. Beavers (we already have coypu) are being re-introduced into the UK, so maybe this sort of thing will increase here.
knodi123 2 hours ago [-]
A møøse once bit my sister.
WalterBright 44 minutes ago [-]
Mind you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti…
throw-the-towel 1 hours ago [-]
Never heard the word "coypu" before, turns out it's the same as "nutria".
sva_ 2 hours ago [-]
It was because the beaver was rabid.
zabzonk 1 hours ago [-]
> beaver was rabid
We don't have rabies in the UK, thankfully, and I don't think my bro got a rabies jab for his French coypu bite. Just naturally grumpy rodents, I guess.
The National Rabies Management Program was established in recognition of the changing scope of rabies. The goal of the program is to prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies and eventually eliminate terrestrial rabies in the United States through an integrated program that involves the use of oral rabies vaccination targeting wild animals.
Since 1995, Wildlife Services (WS) has been working cooperatively with local, State, and Federal governments, universities and other partners to address this public health problem by distributing oral rabies vaccination (ORV) baits in targeted areas. This cooperative program targets the raccoon variant, canine variant in coyotes and a unique variant of gray fox rabies.
mhh__ 2 hours ago [-]
surely there is a roland emmerich movie in there somewhere
A disease that propagates itself by making animals want to bite other animals. I suppose rabies is the base phenomenon behind the zombie meme. It's also a good description of a large fraction of social media posts.
Part of it is that after it does its thing in the brain, it then travels to the salivary glands where it can then spread through a bite.
Case in point.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/do...
> Beaver food flavoring doesn't actually come from the animal's anal gland but from another organ next to it, called the castor sac.
I still wouldn't try it, myself.
You're eating beaver back sac.
17 shots: 15 shots, and 2 boosters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4JqNwDcJ7o
We don't have rabies in the UK, thankfully, and I don't think my bro got a rabies jab for his French coypu bite. Just naturally grumpy rodents, I guess.
QUOTE:
The National Rabies Management Program was established in recognition of the changing scope of rabies. The goal of the program is to prevent the further spread of wildlife rabies and eventually eliminate terrestrial rabies in the United States through an integrated program that involves the use of oral rabies vaccination targeting wild animals.
Since 1995, Wildlife Services (WS) has been working cooperatively with local, State, and Federal governments, universities and other partners to address this public health problem by distributing oral rabies vaccination (ORV) baits in targeted areas. This cooperative program targets the raccoon variant, canine variant in coyotes and a unique variant of gray fox rabies.