To me there is a difference between "feeling sick" and "falling seriously ill." I don't agree with the assessment that she died 4 days after she "felt sick." I've felt sick plenty of times in my life for many days and only occasionally felt sick enough to go to the hospital.

An effective Lyme vaccine would be good news.

Some bat crap, wood ash, sulpher and charcoal will make black powder if you know proportions and procedure.

Interesting. Did not know that.

And what would the Goths have to snack on?

Yes Bruce they would mine for it. There is an old one where the Crack in the rock has been chiped out creating a cave just for that about 80' across the property line on the back side of my farm on the land I was trying to. buy a few years back.

I thought it was common knowledge that by the time you develope rabies symptoms, you’re as good as dead. Is it one peraon in history to be known to have survived rabies after developing symptoms? Pretty sure it was only one ever. So obviously, once she fet sick she was too far gone. Really zero excuse to die from rabies when you know you’ve been bitten. Hard to understand how no one there knew better.