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Any warm blooded animal can carry rabies and that includes humans. There are ways to help to prevent rabies: vaccinating dogs, cats, rabbits, and ferrets against rabies, keeping pets under supervision, not handling wild animals or strays and contacting an animal control officer if you see a wild animal or a stray, especially if the animal is acting strangely.
If bitten by an animal, washing the wound with soap and water for 10 to 15 minutes and contacting a healthcare provider to determine if post-exposure prophylaxis is required.
Rabies used to be called hydrophobia which means fear of water because an animal would try to drink but then would stop. The animal would also 'drool'. This was all caused by the fact that the throat would close up and the animal could not drink even if it wanted to.

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