What wild animals get rabies?
Any mammal can get rabies. Throughout the United States raccoons, skunks, bats, foxes, and coyotes most commonly contract the disease. Squirrels, rabbits, mice, rats and other small rodents rarely die of or transmit rabies. In Minnesota, the skunk rabies strain and several different strains affecting bats are the most prevalent. The CDC publishes a report, entitled Rabies Surveillance in the United States available at www.cdc.gov.
