A former colleague was the head of the arctic rabies lab at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He had a B & W film that was made in about 1950 of an Iranian shepherd who had been bitten by a rabid wolf.
This poor soul was laying in a bed literally foaming copius amounts of frothy sputum from his mouth and shaking uncontrollably. His attentive nurse stood by the bedside dutifully wiping the foam away with huge wads of cotton. She wore no gloves.
The film ended as he took his last breath and expired.
That film made an indelible impression on me. Rabies is not something I would wish on anyone. OK, maybe a FEW libtards - but not many...
I forgot to include the fact that rabies is endemic in the arctic fox populations in Alaska. Up to 85% of them carry the virus. It does not manifest itself unless they get stressed from starvation or other illnesses.
Back in the 1980’s when I worked in the North Slope Oil Patch there was a caribou bull that developed rabies. It would run along the Spine Road smashing into the sides of passing vehicles until it was euthanized. The head was sent to the lab in Fairbanks and the diagnosis was confirmed.
My colleague theorized that it probably became ill after being bitten multiple times by rabid foxes. He assured me that this would not happen to a grizzly or polar bear. He hoped.