Mom to the rescue! This situation is one of the reasons it's good to have a butterfly garden buddy-extra host plant (caterpillar food plant) reserve. I was out of food, but she had dill, parsley, fennel and rue in her garden.he gave me some dill plants and a fennel plant, which I put in my garden by the caterpillars, and took her new caterpillars home. The caterpillars that remained chewed all the dill, fennel, and parsley down to nothing but stubs, and then vanished.
Rabies is an acute viral disease of the central nervous system that affects humans and other mammals but is most common in carnivores (flesh-eaters). It is sometimes referred to as a zoonosis, or disease of animals that can be communicated to humans.oonosis â Any disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans. Rabies is an example of a zoonosis. As of October 2004, the medical community awaits the publication of findings by the doctors that administered a life-saving treatment that cured a Wisconsin teenager of full-blown rabies.
Postexposure prophylaxis is indicated in all persons who were possibly exposed to a rabid animal and is given to about 16,000 to 39,000 persons in the United States each year. 26 Prophylaxis consists of immune globulin at presentation and rabies vaccination on days 0, 3, 7, and 14.