> From:    william <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: paleo and diabetes
>
> Question: Do insect eaters get the same effect from rabies infection
> that non-insect eaters get?
>
> My cat ate three bats last summer, showed no ill effects.

*** Rabies is almost invariably fatal once symptoms occur, but not everyone 
who is bitten by a rabid animal succumbs to the disease. Infection almost 
always occurs from bite wounds--the virus travels to the brain via the 
nervous system. Eating an infected bat would be unlikely to infect the 
eater.  Also, only a small percentage of bats are infected.

--Carrie