The thing is, I could even comprehend a choice to roll the dice bc antibiotics exist, but the next step is to pop into a medical environment for the antibiotics to start on and you can throw them away if the rabbit tests clean.

Iirc she didn’t know that rabbits, shockingly, carry rabbit fever until she was sick enough to land in the ER

Literally why it's called that *frantic handwaving* And even if she hadn't heard of the particular thing, like, wildlife licks their butts.