Hang on... I've gone caving in bat habitats and taken pictures next to large piles of guano... It can't be super easy to catch it from dust inhalation or we would have a lot more cases of rabies.
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It’s not so much how likely it is, as the fact it’s possible and rabies is 100% fatal
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 13 1 • view
The problem is well illustrated by papers like this one: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11973559/ In which the abstract says three things...
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Firstly, most cases of rabies from bats do not involve any identified bite. But secondly, aerosol transmission has never been well documented. Therefore, thirdly, most cases of rabies from bats must involve an unnoticed, invisible bite. One could ponder this mystery for some time.
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
There's a theological perfection to the principle whereby the invisible bite hypothesis is strengthened by the lack of any observation of bites :) while aerosol transmission can never be documented because all cases are accounted for by invisible bites. It's like transubstantiation for pathogenesis.
aug 31, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
I was going to say that it's not 100% with treatment anymore but looking into it, the treatment was so expensive, worked so poorly, and left such long lasting issues that it's been almost entirely abandoned. So for a little bit it wasn't quite 100%, but now we're back.
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The total number of rabies survivors, ever, is still in single digits. I wouldn't play those odds!
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 6 1 • view
Easy, no. Possible, yes.
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Must be rare if it’s a thing at all
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