On 7/14/2012 11:17 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Ann Sanfedele
The first shot, without endangered fingers, is best anyway ...
I cautioned someone once who was feeding Union Square park squirrels
offering tidbits with bare fingers, and not even flat-handed and was
told angrily that squirrels don't get rabies and to mind my own
business.
ann
According to what I can find on the internet, that might be almost
true. The risk of getting rabies from being bitten by a squirrel is
rather low.
A squirrel that gets bitten by another rabid animal is most likely
going to die from being eaten before it can incubate the virus.
Animals with Rabies don't eat, they bite to spread Rabies. Although a
big animal might accidentally kill a squirrel when it bites it.
OTOH ... http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-12-20-squirrel_x.htm
Opossums don't get rabies. It has something to do with their body
temperature not being high enough to sustain the virus. That's what
the animal control officer told me when she came to retrieve the one I
caught in my kitchen a couple of years back.
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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthly search.
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