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bulboustadpole t1_ja6rhkw wrote

Reply to comment by fixaclm in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader

That's pure fear-mongering.

Rabies cases in humans are extremely rare and only about 3-5 people a year in the United States die of it. The "didn't realize they were bit" is also bullshit and there are no cases I can find of it happening.

If unnoticed bites transmitting rabies was common, there would be more than 3-5 deaths a year in a country of 330,000,000 people.

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fixaclm t1_ja83i92 wrote

The woman from New England that lived (first documented case) got bit by a bat and didn't know it. Not fear mongering.

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