//You can survive rabies exposure if you're treated within a few days of exposure, before you have symptoms. Once you have rabies — that is, you're showing symptoms of the virus affecting your brain — there aren't any effective treatments available//

There's a fact I didn't know that I didn't know 

I read that! The first think my husband said to me was 'see what did I tell you!!'

I know - I'm saying I didn't know it wasn't treatable if  a few days has passed 

I guess if you think you've been bitten or scratched by an animal abroad , you must get treatment straight away .

Thing is you might not be in a position to get treated within a few days 

// Poor woman // yes, but poor dog too.

long incubation, a scratch.. i thought it had to be a bite ? tragic all the same.

Many rabid dogs on the dark continent.

Not impossible to contact rabies in the UK. Bats would be the most likely carriers

Bats - there's a mammal that makes me feel uneasy .

Just don't like to see or look at them