alt Hacker NewsThat wasnt my point. Bats are known incubators for rabies because they are immune to it but still carry it. Dogs find the dead bats and get infected, just like other animals. They see food, they eat it, they get infected. The root cause here is the bats but everyones hyper focused on the dogs for some reason.
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msandford • yesterday at 7:42 PM
Maybe you didn't read that it was the history of how Britain eradicated rabies?
For most of history until the rabies vaccine if you got bit by a dog there was a 5% chance it killed you unless you amputated the affected limb.
These are very high stakes for a dog bite.
Dogs are a lot easier to catch than bats and bats don't belong to anyone, so there's two more reasons for you.
There have been very few cases of rabid bats in the UK, if any.