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Why: Can you get rabies such as rabies, bats, or scanks? – Rabid fan
A: Get a little germ, take me bad, bad me? well yes. We bears are not as invincible as our PR team excludes us. We can get rabies, but it is quite rare.
Let’s become scientists for a second: rabies virus is mainly transmitted through saliva, such as common winter or flu. However, we bears are not making our way in a brain-people demise. One way that we can be infected if a crazy animal bites or scratches us. But this does not happen many times. (Not to begged, but we are quite strong that it seems a lot for another animal to get a blow on us.)
Nevertheless, we do this. Just this year, A black bear conducted a positive test in Pennsylvania After attacking a man on a walking route. And in February 2023, locals noticed that a connecticut bear that came out of hibernation quickly failed to escape in the presence of humans and pull the left side of his body – both signs of the virus. Later, the biologist confirmed that the poor man had a stress of rabies similar to one recovered from the Racoon of New England.
Can you catch rabies with a bear? This is possible, but unlikely. This virus affects mammals, which are both you and me. Rabies is also zoonotic, which means it can jump from animals to humans. Unlike bats, racoon, wolves and scanks, however, bears are not a reservoir for viruses, which means that it usually does not live and multiply in our system as it does for those sorrows.
Before you retire your hiking shoes for good, know that with just 1 to 3 human matters every year, rabies in the US is extremely rare. In addition, the infection is completely prevented through vaccination, as long as you receive them before developing symptoms. And people are catching rabies with a bear? As far as we can tell, this has never happened.
Some advice for humans: Remember AgingThis entire “foam on mouth” bit is very rare to look into a crazy animal. But if you see one of us acting strangely, we are drunk, pull the limbs, or strangely stimulated, maintain your distance and call your local wildlife officers.
The bottom line is that we do not want to go out with a foolish small virus. We like to die in the honorable way: in a fierce controversy for the best angling spots on the river. – Bear
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