alt Hacker NewsStrange article. So much focus on dogs with only one mention of bats who are the primary carrier and spreader of rabies.
Replies
Hikikomori • today at 4:44 PM
The first recorded rabies from a bat was in 2002 so not that surprising that it wasn't a focus on victorian England.
➕ show 1 reply
nephihaha • today at 5:21 PM
Dogs were seen as the main vector right into the 1980s. Rightly so. A dog is more likely to attack you than a bat.
➕ show 1 reply
Dogs were the #1 way for humans to catch rabies for most of human history, which I didn't realize until I read Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus.