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I booped a squirrel
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They can be rabid, but they'd have to bite you to transmit that.
As a trained squirrel handler, while it's not impossible for a squirrel to get rabies, there is probably a single digit number of them out there at any given moment.
At least in the US, no one has ever gotten rabies from a squirrel.
Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.
That said, it's unadvisable to touch any wild animals. (Though I'd still boop that squirrel.)
and people.
lol I actually have no idea if person to person actually ever happens, know it's been an issue in transplants tho, which is like.... how?
It looks like the organs/corneas were from people that died without knowing they had it. That seems to have been the only way it's ever been spread human to human.
This story of a girl who got bit, developed symptomatic rabies, and survived says she got bit by a bat and it didn't even bleed, so her mom put peroxide on it and they thought she was fine. She was ok for over a month.
I believe rabies has a pretty long incubation period before symptoms appear, so there's a window where you might not know someone has it