Dr. Ashley Alker

And kids like to swallow things.

So they'll go for anything shiny.

And that's one of the things, you know, a coin can be no big deal.

They often pass that, no problem.

But a button battery can be life-threatening.

So everything from that to, I wrote this in the book and it's one of those things that's not very common, but if you can avoid it, do it.

I don't swim in hot springs, but if you're going to do it, keep your head above water because a very particular brain eating amoeba likes to live in this type of water.

And if you submerge yourself in it and that amoeba is there, it is possible to contract it.

And it is one of those things that's

100% fatal.

Rabies, so things like bat bites in the US are the most common way to contract rabies.

In other countries, it's often stray dogs, but in the United States, because of our very robust vaccination program for pets, the most common way to get rabies is bat bites.

Well, bat bites are both painless and often leave no mark.

So if you ever are touched by a bat or wake up in a room with a bat, you immediately need post-exposure prophylaxis.

So anytime there's any type of bat situation in my family or friends, I'm just go get a rabies vaccine because that is something that's 100% fatal.

You just don't want to mess around with it.

You never know.

And bats that have bad behavior,

bad behavior or odd behavior if they're out during the day, if they're in human homes, those are often bats that are infected with rabies because it causes them to do abnormal things.

Really quick, the squirrels you don't have to be too worried about because rabies is something that is carried by mammals exclusively.