The rabies virus can remain in certain body tissues after death. There have been documented cases of transmitting rabies through organ transplants, for example, cornea transplants taken from someone who had undiagnosed illness. There are also some very recent reports (March 2009) of individuals contracting the rabies virus by eating infected dogs and cats.
If you get bite by a animal with it and do not treat it you could die
yes
You can die from Rabies.
Some animals have rabies in their saliva that could kill you when you get bit. If you dont get the needle course before the rabies devolep the chances are you are going to die.
10,000 out of 200,000 die from rabies annually.
Humans can get rabies from an infected animal (if it bites them)
It could go either way. The cougar would die either way though because the wolf would give it rabies.
An animal bite can transmit many infectious diseases to a human. One of the most dangerous is rabies. Animals can also transmit staphylococcus or streptococcus.
The rabies virus belongs to the Rhabdoviridae family. Rabies can be passed from the saliva of an animal to a human.
the post exposure prophylaxis is human rabies immunoglobulin followed by human diploid cell vaccine
Rabies causes inflammation of the brain in human
If the dog's vaccinations are current, then there is no recorded case of a human contracting the rabies virus from the dog. But, a booster shot is recommended.