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What puts you at risk for getting rabies?
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Rabies: the most important global source of rabies is from uncontrolled rabies in dogs make sure you stay away from them other animals with lesser frequency include raccoons jackals skunks and mongoose. So avoidance is your best defensive
Answered 11/23/2014
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Getting bit: by an infected animal: dogs, raccoons, skunks, and others.
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