BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 15, 2023
It was one of the greatest instances of ironic timing I’ve experienced. On Wednesday while a Maine-based radio show was talking about rabies in the state, I was sitting in a St. Joseph Hospital’s emergency room in Bangor waiting to get a rabies vaccine. All because I wanted to save a bat. Rabies in humans is nothing to joke about. While human cases are 100 percent treatable, they are also near 100 percent fatal when that treatment is delayed or ignored. Which is why I ended up in the St. Joe’s ER for the first two of a course of five shots. ~ Julia Bayly