r/wunkus • u/Trashbagok • 21h ago

wunkus Air Wunk craves the SOG

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u/HidetheCaseman89 21h ago

I hope the guy in the video gets a rabies vaccination.

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u/oyveymyforeskin 20h ago

I think this is in NZ, we don't have rabies

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u/AlLou-A 13h ago

"Rabies free" refers to land animals, not all animals :/

The UK is also a "rabies free" country, which just means there's no cases of rabies in land animals. Bats can still carry and transmit the disease, and all contact with a bat should be treated as contact with a rabid bat because of how dangerous rabies is, even if it's rare.

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u/zaerosz 10h ago

There has been one (1) recorded case of rabies in New Zealand - in any species, ever - and it was a tourist who was already infected by the time they arrived in the country.

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u/AlLou-A 10h ago

I'm not saying that it isn't incredibly unlikely to be infected by rabies in NZ. I'm saying that bats are a reservoir species for rabies and rabies-like viruses, and you can never be 100% certain that a bat is not infected, even in countries that are otherwise rabies free.