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Now I’ll tell you a little tale. Once, couple of years ago, I visited a tourists basecamp in mountain region called Bayka. It was a peaceful and really lovely place somewhere in Carpathians. At first day of staying I was relaxing outside after long trip from my home city to West Ukraine. The sky was so unbelievable and birds singed so goodly that I felt myself like on heavens. And then suddenly cute white kitten appeared and started to come closer to me. “Oh my God, what a beautiful creature!” – I told to myself. As it approached I couldn’t hesitate to caress this little piece of living snow. I started to pet it, kitten began to purr and nothing could be wrong. But then suddenly unexpected was happened! The kitten twisted around of itself like a snake and stubbed fangs in my wrist! I immediately pulled back my hand and have seen good flow of a blood out of my wrist. “What the hell???” I asked myself. I had strange feelings because I didn’t feel pain or something. The only feeling I had was fear. Cold sweat appeared on my back. I remembered scary but truly stories about people who took care on kittens and died in cause of rabies disease! “Rabies!” was my first thought. You really can’t imagine how I was scared at this moment. “Will I die?” was my second thought. Then I’ve told to myself: “Keep calm, I need to do everything I can to survive!” I immediately started to clean my wound with a medical napkin. I knew very well that I extremely need to kill as much potential rabies virions as possible. I cleaned my wound as much as I can with soap and water for 20 min and after this there wasn’t any relax on this journey. 10 days I was in Carpathians, 10 days I investigated Internet for any information about rabies. I’ve found that wrist is one of the fastest gates for rabies in cause of multiple nerves surrounded the flesh. After being involved in tissues, rabies starts to looking for nerves cells and since it found nerve, virions starts to replicate themselves and spread by the nerves line to brain with the average speed 3 mm per hour. After reaching brain cells by the rabies, no living warmblood form of life has any chance to survive unless it was pre-vaccinated. Kitten was stray animal and nobody could tell anything about it. In my case immediate post vaccination was totally recommended. I’ve started to think how much time I need to take medical care in time. I thought that I had about 15 days in the best case. After arriving at home I felt myself sick. I had sore throat, fever and I was totally depressed. But I immediately asked for help in local hospital. For my surprise I had to even insist for medical help. I was hospitalized for 3 days in the department of traumatology. Doctor told me that I could literally have died in this 13 days. That was really terrifying. I received full course of anti-rabies vaccination. First two days was most difficult. I felt strange fear for no reason. I read this fear appears in aggression type of rabies. “I want to survive” – was my only thought. I accounted every day of my life, tried to do everything to help my organism to beat this disease. And then after receiving full course of vaccine doctor has told me: “Well, that’s ok. Be careful next time and avoid close contact with any mammal animal especially wild one”. That gave me a little hope. My stress passed, as the days went by. Now, after one year I almost forgot about this. But several days ago I received news about death of young woman in Norway due to rabies. It is the first rabies-related death in Norway for more than 200 years. Birgitte Kalestad had caressed a stray puppy on her journey in Philippines. Only a little scratch on the hand was the case of 24 year old woman death. Now I have several feelings. I’m really sorry for all human and animal victims of terrifying rabies disease and I’m happy to be alive. Maybe I’m alive because of my precautions and medical help maybe because kitten hadn’t rabies in its saliva. But the things I know now: deadly danger could be anywhere, we need to be careful with our life, we have always to think ahead, and we need to know what to do if fatal mistake happens. Be careful and healthy my dear readers!