[alphan0n]

What a weird take on risk management, I hope you aren’t responsible for managing anyone’s risk besides your own.

You’re advocating against the reason that rabies deaths are so few in your locality and dismissing the monumental amount of effort that went into making it so rare.

There are ~60,000 rabies deaths annually, most from places without access to prophylactic vaccination, and there is little to no public initiatives to control carrier populations or educate the public about the risks.

[madaxe_again]

I’m arguing that risk should be managed based on logic and rationale, not emotion and fear.

To call the entirety of Europe “my locality” is, uh, very American of you.

And yes - rabies deaths from primate and dog bites are more common in undeveloped countries - but 60,000 p.a. is still a vanishingly small number compared to, say, malaria (600,000), TB (1,400,000), hep (1,100,000), diarrhoea (1,500,000), flu (650,000), schistosomiasis (200,000), and cars (1,300,000). I suppose the latter two aren’t scary, because you haven’t heard of one of them, and you use the other every day. There are bigger fish to fry.

Fortunately, dogs (and cats) are universally vaccinated against rabies in Europe, and we have no primates.