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If a dog bites then next steps:
Dog bite. Vaccination status unknown. Treat it as rabies exposure until proven otherwise.
1) Start with the wound. Immediately.
•Wash under running water + soap for at least 15 minutes
•Do not be gentle. Mechanical washing saves lives
•Apply povidone-iodine or chlorhexidine after washing
•Avoid tight suturing unless necessary (and preferably delayed)
2) Assess exposure (this decides urgency)
Category II – scratches, minor bites without bleeding
Category III – bites that break skin, bleeding, saliva on mucosa
Unknown dog = assume Category III if any doubt
3) Rabies prophylaxis (do not delay)
Rabies vaccine (PEP)
Start immediately, day 0.
Common schedule:
•Day 0, 3, 7, 14 (± day 28 depending on protocol)
Do not wait for symptoms.
Once symptoms appear, rabies is almost always fatal.
Rabies Immunoglobulin (RIG) : for Category III
•Infiltrate into and around the wound
•Any remaining volume IM at a distant site
•Given once, on day 0
This provides immediate passive immunity while vaccine builds response.
4) Tetanus prophylaxis
•Give tetanus toxoid if not up to date
•Add tetanus immunoglobulin if high-risk wound and uncertain history
5) Antibiotics (dog bites are dirty wounds)
Common choice:
•Amoxicillin-clavulanate
Covers:
•Pasteurella
•anaerobes
•skin flora
6) Observe the dog (if possible)
•If the dog remains healthy for 10 days, rabies risk is low
•If the dog becomes ill or dies → continue full treatment without hesitation
7) What NOT to do
•Do not ignore “small” bites
•Do not rely on home remedies
•Do not delay vaccine waiting for lab confirmation
Bottom line
In suspected rabies exposure,
time = survival.
Wash aggressively.
Start vaccine immediately.
Add immunoglobulin when indicated.
Everything else is secondary.
Dhirendra Tripathi retweeted
Notice how Elon interferes in the politics of every country EXCEPT China? Why? Because if he does his supply of rare earth for batteries will end. All this show of “principle & independence” is just a show.
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My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
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Israelis are amazing. A bunch of them on a plane. They hear a ruckus in the cockpit, smash the door open, save the captain who has been stabbed by the co-pilot, subdue and neutralize him, then they commandeer the plane and land it. Everyone survives. Name any other nation in the world that produces the kind of people capable of pulling this off.
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You can say what you want about Iran but they're definitely pretty unique in their communication: never seen a country threaten another with a math equation before 😅
For those who didn't get it: there is a famous monetary policy formula used by the Fed called the "Taylor rule" that says a central bank's policy rate (i) should equal the neutral real rate (r*) plus target inflation (π*), plus 1.5 times the inflation gap and 0.5 times the output gap (the "i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*)" part of Ghalibaf's formula).
Ghalibaf adds α(SOH−SOH*) and β(BEM−BEM*): SOH referring to the Strait Of Hormuz and BEM to Bab El-Mandeb. Both have positive coefficient, meaning the more those chokepoints are choked, the higher the rate the Fed would have to set to fight the resulting inflation.
In a nutshell this is Ghalibaf trolling the Fed, telling them that Iran is - in a very real way - setting American monetary policy.
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Finally, a full dip in the Ganges in Rishikesh—three times! 🙏
Over the Janmashtami weekend, surrounded by people carrying on centuries-old faith and traditions, I felt a profound spiritual connection, along with awe, humility, and gratitude.
A truly unforgettable moment 🇮🇳
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Serious concerns regarding the efficacy of #Rabies vaccine available in Delhi!
Here is what has been found
In samples collected from Mukherjee Nagar, it has been found that the vial’s collected and labelled as #Abhayrab was not of standard quality and even misbranded
The vials were tested in Kasauli.
The Manufacturer - Indian Immunologicals says the vials are not its product and has asked authorities to trace their source.
Rabies kills thousands across india and inspite of the vaccine being administered in time, victims die….
Counterfeit anti rabies vaccines are the biggest reason!
Dhirendra Tripathi retweeted
Norwegians don’t apologise when their compatriots perform the Viking chant on escalators or even travelators at airports.
Britishers don’t apologise for their countrymen sailing the seven seas to sell opium.
Pakistanis don’t lose any sleep over grooming gangs.
The French don’t apologise for using every protest in the world to take off their tops.
Americans, rather than apologising, double down on guns after every school shooting.
But Indians — the moment they see any departure from normative behaviour — are constantly apologising for their compatriot’s behaviour.
This week’s Vine asks why Amartya Sen’s Argumentative Indian has now acquired its ideological antithesis: The Apologetic Indian.
TOI BLOG LINK: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
LinkedIn Link: linkedin.com/pulse/weekly-vi…
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Argentina star Lionel Messi retires from international football bbc.in/4xoqAq2
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India's per capita GDP, even adjusted for cost of living, was lower in 1990 as a share of American incomes than in 1950. Relative GDP PPP per person is the cleanest measure you can check. One can adjust for GNI vs GDP for small economies, consumption share for distorted or export-focused ones and for health-longevity effects. Except last point, the other two do not apply much for US-India comparisons.
So even the most flattering assessment would say that PM Nehru's economics to a certain extent but much more PM Indira's economics failed India. Especially Indira's first decade. Her 1980 return saw her and then PM Rajiv be a bit more pro-business, but reforms still waited for PMs Rao, Vajpayee, Modi. PM Singh got a global macro boost, but could not push major reforms.
All our internal and external problems have one solution above all: rapid and sustainable economic growth. We must unambiguously aim to be the world's largest economy by ~2045 in PPP and by ~2050 in USD. Our aim should be to match per capita income of China latest by ~2055 and US by ~2065.
It is plausible. The maths and economics works out. India has the scale, youth, density, aspiration. There is nothing magical about Americans, Europeans or East Asians. The first step is believing it can be done. If India as the world's largest polity (by some distance by then) does not become the world's largest economy - it is permanently consigning average Indian families to be lesser beings.
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"The Road to Viksit Bharat: The Impossible Math?" substack.com/@ssbhalla/note/… Download it - all free. Intro: This is, by my own count, my fifth attempt at starting a Substack. The previous four died the same death: a column was due, and a Substack was not. What changed my mind is not that I lack outlets — I don't. It is what has happened to the space around them. Opinion everywhere has polarised to the point where a finding is read first for whose side it helps, and only afterwards, if at all, for whether it is true. Newspapers have word limits and house positions. The major think tanks have funders, and funders have preferences that need never be stated to be understood. Corporations have interests, and they are not shy about them. Governments have views, and they make them known. Political correctness of the left and of the right now police an overlapping and steadily growing list of things one is not supposed to find in the data. None of this is censorship, exactly. But each outlet comes with a frame, and the frame arrives before the argument does. This page has no frame. What follows is the data, the method, and the conclusion the two of them force — at whatever length that takes, with nobody to please.
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Apparently, a uniform set of laws for all citizens is good for Britain but somehow not for India. A very interesting view from @TheEconomist
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Patiala, Punjab - A couple was attacked by a pitbull dog in Patiala while they were visiting a property with a real estate dealer. The husband and wife had gone to inspect a house for purchase. When they rang the doorbell, a pitbull inside the premises suddenly lunged at them. Local residents tried to intervene and rescue the couple, but by then the dog had already inflicted serious injuries. Both the husband and wife sustained multiple bite wounds on various parts of their bodies. They have been admitted to a private hospital in Patiala for treatment.
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"Who is this lovely person, who has a lot of money and does not want to give to Gaza but to India?” Harish Salve on why the Western World's heart beat for India but not for Gaza, Sudan, Cango, and Ethiopia? WAKE UP!
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Nothing in life is truly free. It may be free for me. What is free for me is paid for by someone. So, how long can UPI be free? The debate in my view has to be about who pays, not whether anyone pays!!!
NPCI is a not for profit section 8 company. RBI initiated.. Banks incorporated it and capitalised it. Now, 60 plus banks are shareholders of NPCI.
How and why should the entire UPI stack be free? Where will the funding come from? Banks cannot keep doing it. I dont want the Government to fund it. The Government can fund it. It would not make a difference given how big its spending is today. Political appointments or bureaucracy running it are the next logical step after government funding! Less Government the better!!
With UPI having become a critical national infrastructure. The real policy question is who should fund its ongoing costs : the banks? taxpayers? merchants? or some combination of them? There is no payment system in the world that operates at zero cost. See what the credit card payment processors charge.
Would MDR charged to the merchants be passed on? Possibly by small merchants. The large merchants may absorb it like the credit card payment processing fee. So, a MDR which is only applicable on large merchants (which is what I have been reading as the proposal) is NOT that bad, IMHO. And the unofficial sources floating around are indicating in the range of Re 1 per Rs 400! Not bad at all.
Roads or drinking water or electricity could be funded by taxpayers because they are classic public goods. Most of us pay for most of those in one way or the other! How can UPI specially those transactions which facilitates commercial transactions between known buyers and sellers be free? Why shouldn't the beneficiaries specially the large commercial merchants bear at least part of the cost?
Alternatively, those who are objecting to MDR can suggest ways to fund the UPI stack improvement or enhancement.
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How @nytimes covers protests:
40 deaths in PoK → 1 report
1 resignation in Delhi → 16 reports
#NarrativeEconomics