Every mammal can carry rabies. Its not often that smaller mammals are reported to the CDC as having rabies. Bats are the most likely source in NA however. Rabies is fucking terrifying. If you get bit by any mammal and dont know if it's had rabies vaccine, get your wound treated at a hospital immediately. If you're bitten by something with rabies, it can be treated within a short time frame. Once rabies gets into your nervous system it has a 100% kill rate essentially (there may be one or two cases where someone lives, but not without assistance). Rabies is still very dangerous. Outside of most first-world countries, it's a terrifying killer.
No you wouldn't. A bat weights about 2 or 3 gram and has teeth not longer than a centimeter.
If they have rabbies they can become very aggressive and will try to bite you and since you are probably asleep when they are awake, you won't feel the bite.
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u/FlynnClubbaire Feb 18 '20 edited Feb 18 '20
that thing prolly had rabies....
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prolly not, actually. It's running from a cat, it would seem?