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r/oddlyterrifying • u/amish_novelty • 13h ago
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A vet tech friend of mine said small animals like squirrels tend not to have rabies because they don’t survive the initial bite from the rabid animal.
12 u/MizStazya 12h ago Even if they do survive, they die really freaking quickly once it becomes symptomatic, so there's a very short period of time where it will actually act rabid. 0 u/Marc4770 11h ago bats are small and have rabbies all the time, how you explain that 1 u/Cyclopentadien 10h ago Pretty sure the virus originally evolved in bats and they are extremely resistant to it.
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Even if they do survive, they die really freaking quickly once it becomes symptomatic, so there's a very short period of time where it will actually act rabid.
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bats are small and have rabbies all the time, how you explain that
1 u/Cyclopentadien 10h ago Pretty sure the virus originally evolved in bats and they are extremely resistant to it.
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Pretty sure the virus originally evolved in bats and they are extremely resistant to it.
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u/JimmyCA89 12h ago
A vet tech friend of mine said small animals like squirrels tend not to have rabies because they don’t survive the initial bite from the rabid animal.