> 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