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How you can get rabies?

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You can contract the rabies virus from any mammal, including humans.
Once you have contracted rabies your survival rate 0% (Unless you have got your shot)
Rabies is a highly neurotropic virus that evades immune surveillance by its sequestration in the nervous system.

Once you get it you are pretty much screwed, only a handful of people (i don't think over 5 ) have ever survived this virus (They were induced into a coma).

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