Subject: bats, birds and rabies
Date: Sep 26 09:48:20 1997
From: Peggi & Ben Rodgers - woodduck at cruzio.com


At 08:38 PM 9/25/97 -0400, Maia wrote:

>All mammals can contract rabies; however, even the less than a half of
>one percent of bats that do, normally bite only in self-defense and pose
>little threat to people who do not handle them.
>
All birds can contract rabies as well. Most don't survive long enough to
pass it on, though (the exception, of course, being raptors).

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com
http://www2.cruzio.com/~woodduck/


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