This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an
infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease,
often acquired when hunting and cutting up an
infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of
infected cows).