This is probably a stupid question, but i saw on TV somewhere that you can get rabies from a mammal-eating reptile. Is that true? I didn't think so...
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Are you planning on getting bitten by a mammal-eating reptile? If so, sounds like you might want to be near a hospital! 
If you do go ahead with this experiment, be sure to tell us the results!
If you do go ahead with this experiment, be sure to tell us the results!
lol No, not gonna experiment, lolzacjeff;3677318; said:Are you planning on getting bitten by a mammal-eating reptile? If so, sounds like you might want to be near a hospital!
It's just that where I go every year in Florida has Black Racers...I've always wanted to catch one...
no, snakes have a body temperature that is both too low and too variable to support the rabies virus. I have been bit by countless "mammal eating reptiles" both captive and wild and have never worried about anything beyond a mild infection.
Since rabies is a virus, (a virus that ravages the brain) the mammal (warm blooded) must be infected with that virus in order to pass it to another mammal. Reptiles are not included as a vector in it's spread, UNLESS, you were standing next to the reptile that had just killed an infected mammal and the reptile immediately turned and bit you with pieces of viable infected flesh still on it's teeth, then transmission might occur. (The transmission of the rabies virus must be through an open wound with saliva, blood, or other bodily fluid transmission.) Do yourself a favor and go buy a lottery ticket. The chances of you winning are better than you getting bitten in this manner.