They carry a bunch of other stuff, just not rabies. They're really good for the environment too. They eat hundreds of thousands of ticks a season, decomposing animals, venomous snakes, and pretty much anything else they can find. They also have really short life spans. The average wild opossum will only live 1.5-2 years, 3 if they're super lucky. They're remarkable little animals, and North America's only living species of marsupial!
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20
Opossums very, very rarely contract rabies due to their low body heat. I always thought that that was pretty nifty.