Do BATS give people RABIES?

Question

do they have to Actually bite the human...or just

touch the skin?

Answer 1

they have to bite the skin because rabies is carried in the saliva of the animal, and in order for you to get it, there needs to be a break in the skin---hence a bite

Answer 2

if they have rabies and bit you YES THEY CAN

Answer 3

Generally, without having the bat available for analysis, you have to assume that the bat is rabid. It's not always the case, but it's better safe than sorry. Rabies does have post exposure prophylaxis, so as long as you get treatment ASAP, you'll be OK.

And, no, you do NOT have to be bit by a bat in order to get rabies. While the bat's saliva contains the rabies, if the bat was to l**k an open wound, that would be enough.

If you were bit, get help immediately and make sure that you:

1. Wash out the wound thoroughly

2. Make sure you get rabies immunoglobulin shots at the site of the bite

3. If you don't have the bat, get the vaccine ASAP.

Answer 4

definitely yes they can give you rabbi-es and if you have came in contact with one you better go to the Dr now you cant and want even feel the bite not SO long a go a little boy was coming home and he picked up a bat and brought it home and he didn't know he had been bit and when they detected the rabbi-es in him it was to late i seen this on television i think it happened in Nashville and know they don't have to bite you a little scratch from their claw would give you rabbi-es and you wouldn't even feel the scratch

Answer 5

yes they can! they can spread it to humans too!

Answer 6

Yes. Moreover, they have a fairly high incidence of rabies, and their bite is often undetected by the victim. The recommendation for immunization is thus different in that case than with any other animal: if you, say, wake up with a bat in the room, the immunization series is recommended, simply because you can't know that you weren't bitten. That's considerably more aggressive than with any other exposures, where you pretty well know if you've been bitten.

In general, it takes a bite for rabies to be transmitted, with the virus from the saliva being injected at the time of the bite. That's why rodents and lagomorphs (hares and rabbits) aren't a risk to transmit it: they don't have the spit.