Possum!

[Chickassan]

Couldn't find it, dont doubt you though.
If they did contract it though the virus would have a rough time surviving.
I respect possums, clean up crew, immune to venom, rabies resistant and can put themselves into a coma.
CDC did show bats, skunks and coons spread rabies crazy amounts and I learned whales could go rabid....think about that one!

If you look at the CDC website, you will find official reports of rabid opossums there. Few, but not zero.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

I couldn't find it either, but there were three, as I remember, over a couple of years, in the late 2000's or early 2010's. During the worst of the raccoon rabies epidemic on the East coast.
I've had one rabid raccoon encounter, and that was enough.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

As I recall from school, it took injecting the virus directly into their little brains to actually cause the disease. Yuck! So resistant, but not zero cases.
Rodents are pretty resistant too, but they carry other nasties...
Mary

 

[PattyNH]

Couldn't find it, dont doubt you though.
If they did contract it though the virus would have a rough time surviving.
I respect possums, clean up crew, immune to venom, rabies resistant and can put themselves into a coma.
CDC did show bats, skunks and coons spread rabies crazy amounts and I learned whales could go rabid....think about that one! View attachment 1911007

It is in this document in the table under wild animals. It lists 2 cases.
https://www.cdc.gov › surveillance
Wild Animals | Rabies in U.S. | Rabies | CDC

 

[Chickassan]

Found it, thank you!
Looks like more people went rabid than possums.
Now that does not surprise me.

It is in this document in the table under wild animals. It lists 2 cases.
https://www.cdc.gov › surveillance
Wild Animals | Rabies in U.S. | Rabies | CDC

 

[Compost King]

Found it, thank you!
Looks like more people went rabid than possums.
Now that does not surprise me.

does that mean we can't relocate humans?

 

[Chickassan]

Nope, just means you gotta take them farther.

does that mean we can't relocate humans?

 

[Folly's place]

We are blessed in the USA to have so very few human cases; worldwide, it's more like 50,000 to 60,000 each year, mostly children, mostly from dogs, in Africa. Terrible!
Mary

 

[Chickassan]

Or India! They have tons of cases too.
I don't think anyone is allowed to remove the street dogs that spread it either.
They do vaccinate some, but the numbers are just huge.

We are blessed in the USA to have so very few human cases; worldwide, it's more like 50,000 to 60,000 each year, mostly children, mostly from dogs, in Africa. Terrible!
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Right, Africa and India, and mostly from dogs, who mostly aren't vaccinated. It's hard to manage vaccine that has to be refrigerated out there where there's no electricity and very poor transportation generally, and while there's work being done developing alternative vaccines, it's not out there yet.
Mary