I mean, in Europe, bats carry rabies - something like 1% of them - but there have been a grand total of three rabies cases in the last 50 years from bat bites across the entire continent.
As to mice and rats - the chance of getting rabies from them is negligible, anywhere - they usually end up incapacitated and dead through predation extremely rapidly.
I’ve been bitten by all of the above. No treatment beyond dousing the wounds with peroxide.
The closest a mouse ever came to killing me was when it pushed a rock out of a wall in the hovel in which I lived, which smashed the headboard of the bed a few inches from my skull.
I feel like this is all something that has been pushed by the American insurance industry. Again - 43 deaths in 50 years. Negligible.
If you really cared about risk management, you would never, ever get in a motor vehicle, and you would have insurance for putting on your pants in the morning.
Like so many things, rational risk management is overtaken by fear and emotion.
As to mice and rats - the chance of getting rabies from them is negligible, anywhere - they usually end up incapacitated and dead through predation extremely rapidly.
I’ve been bitten by all of the above. No treatment beyond dousing the wounds with peroxide.
The closest a mouse ever came to killing me was when it pushed a rock out of a wall in the hovel in which I lived, which smashed the headboard of the bed a few inches from my skull.
I feel like this is all something that has been pushed by the American insurance industry. Again - 43 deaths in 50 years. Negligible.
If you really cared about risk management, you would never, ever get in a motor vehicle, and you would have insurance for putting on your pants in the morning.
Like so many things, rational risk management is overtaken by fear and emotion.