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Should I be worried about Rabies?
I do have some issues with anxiety so I ask that perhaps when you all read this that you not judge my irrationality too harshly because I'm not always the best at being self aware of my entire problem, so hence why I'm asking here whether or not I'm overreacting.
This is going to sound absolutely rediculous but I live in Southern California and sometimes we have bats living around. I once had a few living in my palm tree a few years back even. One day I was walking in an absolute dry heat when something wet hit my face, it seemed like water but no clouds in sight, I then saw something rustling around in a palm tree nearby. I had heard that if the saliva of an animal infected with rabies gets into your mucous membranes you could be infected. I washed my face once I got home, with soap, but I was still worried that what if it was a bad in that tree and what if I had somehow come into contact with its saliva (whatever must have hit my face). This was just over a month to maybe a month and a half ago. Is there even a remote chance that I should be worried? If so what should I do? If it had come into contact with my eyes or my mouth or something then would I be showing symptoms by now?
This is going to sound absolutely rediculous but I live in Southern California and sometimes we have bats living around. I once had a few living in my palm tree a few years back even. One day I was walking in an absolute dry heat when something wet hit my face, it seemed like water but no clouds in sight, I then saw something rustling around in a palm tree nearby. I had heard that if the saliva of an animal infected with rabies gets into your mucous membranes you could be infected. I washed my face once I got home, with soap, but I was still worried that what if it was a bad in that tree and what if I had somehow come into contact with its saliva (whatever must have hit my face). This was just over a month to maybe a month and a half ago. Is there even a remote chance that I should be worried? If so what should I do? If it had come into contact with my eyes or my mouth or something then would I be showing symptoms by now?
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