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I was walking in Veracruz, Mexico, around 7:00 PM, completely focused looking down because I was checking something on my hand. Suddenly, I lifted my gaze, took a few more steps, and felt a very specific sensation: like a drop of water or a “little bubble” on the inside of my lip.
I’m scared because I didn’t feel any impact or hit from anything falling from above. My biggest fear is that a drop really did fall from a mango tree and that, because I was so distracted, my senses simply didn’t register it.
What worries me the most is that this drop could have been fresh saliva from a sick animal (like a bat) and that the rabies virus was still active. I had a throat infection (pharyngitis, treated with Gramaxin) and my mind connected everything: I fear that this drop mixed with my saliva, and that by moving my tongue or swallowing normally, it went straight to the inflamed tissues in my throat.
And now every day the possibility of developing rabies is destroying me, because no one can assure me that I will be healthy and alive. The worry is killing me. And yes I have read the faq. (I accept comments in English and Spanish)