This Is Us
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The dog that saved me, the dog I couldn’t save
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13 min readDec 3, 2020
When I was five, a kid from my neighborhood was bitten by a street dog, infected with rabies, and spent a month paralyzed in bed before he drowned from his saliva. His doting parents, who continued to share his meals despite his illness, contracted rabies through infected body fluids…