Is rabies lethal or nonlethal?

Lethal: Rabies is still a deadly disease.

ALWAYS LETHAL: After the acute phase, death is inevitable.

Quite Leathal: 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