This ought to give you pause...

Got Rabies?
Originally uploaded by Ignotz.

... at least for a moment or two.

And to think it could be so easy to transmit: Mutant Rabies.

Health scare of the week: Mutant rabies is spreading... A highly infectious strain of mutant rabies is spreading among animals across the state of Arizona

What makes this scarey is the mutation: transmission isn't through biting; transmission is through social interaction. It's gone airborne.

h/t to Commander Salamander.