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Short answer: yes, but it is highly unlikely.

Long answer:

According to my Infectious Diseases study materials, rabies can affect ANY mammal.

Now, when I read that I thought just like you: really? even, say, a whale? wow!

So then I was on my way to Google to find out, and what I found is that technically, it IS possible, but as the most common rabies carriers (dogs, foxes, coyotes, cats, raccoons, bats...) are landlubbers it is highly unlikely. However, there has been one reported case of a rabid seal (probably bit by a coyote on the beach). Now, say that the seal was to bite a whale, the whale would get infected. Cool, huh? Only, I don't see seals biting whales as a very common thing, but yeah, definitely possible.

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