All it takes is one bite from a rabid animal, with no follow up medical treatment, and death is virtually guaranteed. But there have been less than 100 deaths in the last century in the US. Why aren’t deaths more common, especially given the sheer volume of wilderness and wild animals in the US?
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because there IS a follow up treatment, there has been for almost 200 years.
turns out, you can get vacinated for rabies AFTER you have been bitten, and its still effective.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000572.htm
That and people just dont get bitten by wild animals that much.
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