Jamaica Star Seraspe & buddy;
Kaheem Robinson. (Beth Clifton collage)
Jamaica Star Seraspe requested for assist too late; Kaheem Robinson apparently by no means requested. But each knew they had been in bother.
NEW YORK CITY, NY; MANILA, Philippines––Seventh grade pupil Jamaica Star Seraspe, 13, of the Tondo district of Manila, Philippines, and Kaheem Robinson, 41, of the Longwood district in Bronx, New York, had in frequent solely agonizing, terrifying deaths from canine assaults, after not looking for assist once they may have.
Both Jamaica Star Seraspe and Kaheem Robinson apparently couldn’t deliver themselves to confess having made the errors that killed them.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Did she worry scolding greater than rabies?
“Jamaica Star Seraspe said she had scraped herself on metal wire, as she feared she would be told off if she told the truth,” reported Ritu Singh of NDTV in New Delhi, India, and Sara Odeen-Isbister of MetroUK on April 22, 2024, each apparently working from Manila media accounts that they didn’t credit score, printed in Spanish.
Walking home from college on February 9, 2024, Jamaica Star Seraspe suffered a chunk from a rabid canine operating amok, who bit seven different folks, was captured, and died eight days later in quarantine.
Why Jamaica Star Seraspe didn’t search assist––particularly after the canine died, practically 5 weeks earlier than her personal loss of life––stays unclear.
(Beth Clifton collage)
“It’s too late for me to be vaccinated”
“Actually, I know that I have rabies,” she emailed to herself on April 5, 2024. “I just couldn’t tell Mama because I didn’t want her to be disappointed.
“That day, my mum thought I had a UTI. But I didn’t know if it was really a UTI or rabies.
“I’ve done a lot of research about rabies when I was bitten on February 9,” Jamaica Star Seraspe added.
“Since then, I couldn’t accept that I would become rabid one day. It’s too late for me to be vaccinated.”
Later on April 5, 2024, Jamaica Star Seraspe wrote, “I have a hard time to breathe. I started to search on YouTube about rabid humans. Gosh, those children… They will literally die slowly and painfully, and the hydrophobia they were experiencing is the same as mine.
“I can’t believe a teenager like me would experience this. If I get hospitalized, please just send me into a coma rather than being conscious in pain.”
(Beth Clifton collage)
“Goodbye, world.”
“I will really miss bonding with my loved ones,” she continued. “I loved them. This is my one last goodbye. Just remember: I’ll be staying by your side no matter what.
“The reason I wrote these is so they can remember my death, and to remind people to be aware of animals that can transmit this disease. That’s all. Goodbye, world,” Jamaica Star Seraspe completed.
Suffering fever, again ache, fatigue and unable to drink water, Jamaica Star Seraspe finally admitted to her mom, Roselyn Seraspe, that she had been bitten by the mad canine.
Jamaica Star Seraspe.
“She kept apologizing”
Roselyn Seraspe took her daughter to the San Lazaro Hospital.
“Nurses had to restrain her limbs because she was restless and kept thrashing in her bed,” wrote Sara Odeen-Isbister
“I asked her why she didn’t tell me right away,” Roselyn Seraspe stated. “She kept apologizing. I told her I wasn’t mad at her, but we could have had her checked sooner. When she asked me if she was going to die, I felt scared. I wanted to go into hysterics.”
(Beth Clifton collage)
“She tried to be brave”
Posted Roselyn Seraspe to social media on April 18, 2024, “To other parents, be conscious if your child is acting strange.
“Teach your children to take cat scratches and dog bites seriously, and to tell adults right away. Rabies is not a joke. It is fatal. Do not take it lightly, so that others can avoid what my daughter experienced.
“And to pet owners, please be responsible for your animals. Make sure they are vaccinated so they cannot cause harm to other people.
“In spite of everything,” Roselyn Seraspe concluded, “I am proud of my daughter because she tried to be brave throughout her ordeal.”
Dr. Rodney Willoughby and Jeanne Giese-Frassetto. (From Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin video.)
Could the Milwaukee protocol have saved her?
Jamaica Star Seraspe may disputably have had a better-than-average probability of survival, had she instructed anybody she had been bitten earlier than the onset of extreme rabid signs, as a result of she was within the slim age vary of rabies sufferers who’ve reportedly been handled efficiently utilizing a controversial and now largely discredited methodology referred to as the Milwaukee protocol.
The concept behind the Milwaukee protocol is to sluggish the advance of the rabies an infection towards the sufferer’s mind, whereas treating the fever and different signs, by placing the sufferer right into a drug-induced synthetic coma, shopping for time for the sufferer’s personal immune system to struggle off the lethal virus.
Milwaukee protocol developer Rodney Willoughby, M.D., of the Children’s Hospital in Wisconsin, has credited the protocol with saving the lives of no less than two youngsters within the U.S., and 18 folks world wide, in about 80 makes an attempt.
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Some obvious successes
The first person to endure the Milwaukee protocol, Jeanna Giese-Frassetto, was bitten by a rabid bat she was attempting to hold out of her church on September 12, 2004. She was then 15. She reportedly turned solely the sixth person on medical report to outlive rabies, and the primary to flee extreme mind injury. She grew up, married, had twin youngsters, and in recent years has accomplished preventive schooling about rabies.
The Milwaukee protocol in September 2017 additionally reportedly saved a three-year-old boy who was bitten by a rabid canine within the Dominican Republic.
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Many failures
In November 2017 a variant of the Milwaukee protocol referred to as the Recife protocol reportedly saved a 14-year-old boy who together with his brother and sister suffered vampire bat bites in Rio Unini, Brazil, a rural neighborhood on the Rio Negro, a significant Amazon tributary––however the brother and sister died.
Altogether, 5 out of 43 sufferers handled with the Milwaukee and/or Recife protocols reportedly survived. Whether any of the survivors really had rabies, nevertheless, has been scientifically questioned.
The outcomes of the Milwaukee and Recife protocols have been so inconsistent, and the makes an attempt to make use of these protocols are so pricey, that they’re not medically really useful.
Kaheem Robinson.
Kaheem Robinson: killed by personal pit bull
Kaheem Robinson, whose pit bull reportedly tore his jugular vein, died contrastingly shortly after his personal pit bull attacked him at about 3 a.m. on the morning of April 26, 2024.
“Friend of the victim Debra Graham told News 12 she called 911 after she saw the dog biting her friend’s neck and entire body inside of his apartment,” WABC summarized.
“Graham claims the man only had the dog for about eight months and he had it locked in a cage because it was vicious and wouldn’t stop barking,” WABC continued.
Updated New York Post reporter Tomas E. Gaston, “A friend of the victim feared the dog, whose name was either Mic or Max, even though the dog appeared calm, he said.
(Beth Clifton collage)
“It’s a pit bull. They go berserk,” neighbor warned
“I told him that dog was no good. It’s a pit bull. They go berserk,” the neighbor stated to Gaston, declining to provide his title.
“He said the victim was having trouble affording food and was giving some of what little he had to the dog,” Gaston wrote.
“He was barely feeding himself,” stated the neighbor. “When he made meals he fed the dog too,” he stated. “He would go to these [food pantries]. He would get stuff for him. They would also give out dog food. He would get a six-pound bag every couple of days.
“I was just with him last night. We smoked some seed, we chilled. Everything was cool. He was cooking salmon cakes. It sucks. Here one day, next day you’re gone,” the neighbor completed.
Teddy the canine. (Beth Clifton picture)
“Dogs must be registered”
Another neighbor, Gilbert Durecout, instructed WABC, “There was a girl in the apartment,” apparently Debra Graham, “and she was yelling that he was unconscious and then was like oh, call 911, look he’s unconscious, he can’t get up. And that’s when the cops finally came and they got into the apartment.”
Added Gaston, “The affordable housing building opened just last year and dogs must be registered with management.
“Robinson’s relatives say they were happy he finally had a place of his own after years of struggles. He previously lived in a shelter and two years ago lost an 18-year-old daughter to cancer.”
(Beth Clifton collage)
Where did the pit bull come from?
“We just found out about the dog ourselves, so we aren’t too sure. We’re trying to find out who he got the dog from,” stated Robinson’s sister Kayesha Barnett.
What is evident is that Robinson feared the pit bull sufficient to maintain him caged, however regardless of warnings from mates, didn’t give the pit bull up.
Kaheem Robinson was the sixteenth identified U.S. deadly canine attack sufferer of 2024, and the ninth sufferer killed by a pit bull.
Beth & Merritt Clifton.
The most recent earlier sufferer was one-year-old Shiraz Amal Asirvadam, mauled on April 15, 2024 by three dogs described by police as German shepherd mixes on the home of his babysitter, believed to have been Marilyn M. Trout, 59, of Duncanville, Texas, a Dallas suburb.
That attack is reportedly nonetheless beneath investigation.
