Has anybody contracted rabies from a human bite?

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I asked the search engine but didn’t get a definite answer.
(The question occurred to me as I am reading a book about Theatre du Grand Guignol plays and Rabies seems to have been a popular theme).

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  1. 061300 Avatar

    No, not yet! It’s possible in theory, I think? But nope. There have been cases in general of human to human rabies happening but it was through organ/tissue transplants.
    Edit: I think part of the reason we don’t know is just because when it gets to the point where saliva could be contagious, they are already very deep in symptoms. And humans don’t usually go to biting out of aggression like animals do, at least not as a subconscious instinct. We’re more thrashers.

  2. Jaquewacky Avatar

    Maybe but it that would be really rare. Humans don’t live as long w rabies and they don’t usually bite as a symptom. And it would be a lot harder for a human bite to break skin