How Do You Know if a Wild Animal Has Rabies
Rabies is a serious disease that, if left untreated, can prove fatal for any mammal that has it. To help prevent you and your loved ones from contracting this fatal disease, you should be able to tell when a wild animal has rabies.
What Is Rabies and How Can It Affect Animals (And You, if Bitten)?
Knowing what rabies is and how wild animals get this disease is the first step to countering it. Rabies is a viral disease that affects the nervous system in mammals. It is most often transmitted by animals a few days before they die when their saliva comes into contact with another mammals' scratches, open wounds or mucous membranes. Normally this is the final stage of rabies.
Saliva is the only way for the disease to travel from one mammal to another since the virus can’t survive in the open air.
When a human contracts rabies, they first experience an incubation period that can range from a couple of...