Yes and when a bat has a 10% chance of carrying rabies you get a rabies shot it you come into contact with one.
Yes, the odds of you getting it are small, but the downside is that if you do get it you’re almost guaranteed to die.
Yes, the odds of you getting it are small, but the downside is that if you do get it you’re almost guaranteed to die.
Though the other nasty thing is that getting rabies shots cost thousands or in some cases tens of thousands of dollars in the US, which leaves a lot of people with the choice between bankruptcy or some unknown probability of getting rabies and the subsequent guaranteed death.
[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525325/ [1]: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/48/11/1493/347031