Because, you know. I’m just asking.
Well done is fun.
Undone and so are you.
Confidentially: Do you eat dogs?
Fat Chance, that was a bit snarky; this is a reasonable question even if you would never eat dogs. All mammals, not just dogs, are potentially susceptible to rabies. Back in the 1920s there was a nasty outbreak among cattle and some humans in Tenerife; the vector animal was vampire bats.
As to the OP, I confess I don’t know if simply eating rabid meat would be dangerous. Theoretically, if it was quite free of nervous system tissue (which the virus infects), it could be safe. Personally, I wouldn’t eat it, even if it was well-cooked.
I sure as hell wouldn’t want to slaughter or butcher a rabid animal, unless I got vaccinated first and could do the work in a proper laboratory. You don’t have to be bitten to get infected; rabid saliva or infected nervous tissue touching an open wound, or possibly a mucous membrane, can suffice. Rabies has been spread among humans by cornea transplants, when the donor’s rabies had not been diagnosed at the time of death.
Bottom line, potentially rabid meat is stuff to avoid. Rabies is fatal, and it’s an ugly way to die.
:smack: :smack: Apologies to Fat Chance; I meant Springears. What thread was I looking at? :smack: