I’m an english teacher, and today a student asked me what a Mink was. After googling the translation into our language, we started talking about rodents as pets and rabies came up. I told them some facts I knew about it and then the same student asked a very good question: How do the rabid wild animals get the rabies to begin with? Where does the rabies virus originate?
I then realised I don’t know the answer, so I told him that now he has something interesting to look up, and so do I. I would like to know the answer before our next class a couple days from now, so I went on google and skimmed through some articles, wikipedia and whatnot. I couldn’t find it!
So, since I don’t really know how to look for this information in depth, I figured I’d ask here. Could any virologists, vets or people wise in the matter explain, please?
Thanks in advance!
In: Biology
They get bit by another rabid animal which itself got bit by another. And there are some animals, such as bats, that have a high tolerance for rabies and can pass it on to larger animals without feeling many ill effects from the virus.
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