In article ,
Rusty Mase wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:51:59 GMT, "Cindy"
wrote:

What about skunks? I thought the rationale behind banning skunks as pets is
that they carry rabies. Or are they not rodents?

No, skunks are not Rodents, they are Carnivores. The main carriers of
rabies are all Carnivores except for bats. So between bats and
Carnivores there are not many carriers of rabies and possibly not any.

Take for example horses. Horses bite people on occassion and yet I
have never heard of a horse being sacrificed for a rabies test.

They don't sacrifice the horse usually, but test it after it has died.
:-( Rabid horses bitten by rabid predators CAN transmit rabies. I know
of one family in my area that had to undergo the exposure vaccinations
after their horse died of rabies.

You don't have to be bitten to be exposed.


On the other hand if something bites you and you do not know much
about what bit you then you really should ask a doctor. Hopefully, if
you encountered a house mouse that took a nip out of your finger, the
doctor would know not run you through rabies injections.

Mice and rats can transmit other diseases tho'. Lots of them. ;-)

Haanta for one.

K.


Rusty Mase

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