Can you get rabies without broken skin/bite wound? friends dog snapped at me but left no mark or bite. said to have shots. scared of getting rabies!

Few dogs have rabies: Vaccines have prevented dogs from having rabies, but bats carry the germ and have spread it without visible bite marks. Rabies.

Yes, but...: In the United States, dogs are well taken care of, and cities have good animal control services. One is unlikely to get rabies from dog bite in the U.S.. Sure, there might be a rabid dog here and there, but nothing near the level of problems seen in developing countries. In the U.S., the animals that carry rabies are raccoons, skunks, foxes, coyotes, and bats. Any bite should be seen by a doctor.

Nope: You will be fine. Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The vast majority of rabies cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year occur in wild animals like raccoons, skunks, bats, and foxes. http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html