Here’s the good news for your social life: humans are basically a dead end for rabies. Even if you get the disease, you won’t start a chain of human-to-human drama. The virus doesn’t spread through casual contact like coughing, handshakes, or sharing nachos. Theoretically, an infected person could pass it via a bite or through transplanted tissue, but that’s about as rare as a unicorn using a payphone.
So, if your friend gets bit by a bat, you can still sit next to them—just don’t offer to lick their wound. That’s both weird and medically unnecessary.
