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How to get rabies?

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Rabies is an infectious disease caused by a Rhabdoviridae virus. The most common way that the virus is transmitted is from a bite of an infected animal, there have been a few very rare cases of rabies in which people have contracted the disease by inhaling the virus in bat caves, but again this is very rare.

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