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>>16146913
>contracting lockjaw

Dude.
Literally metalpoisoning causes lackjaw, encephalitis, meningitis.

Not a bacteria that lurks coincidentally on a rusty nail.

Also the time when "Lockjaw" was propagated (1900-1930) they were pushing lead arsenate, paris green and various "pesticides" based of mercury and arsenic.
Imagine having a farm, spraying and powdering everything with highly neurotoxic arsenic based pesticides and then getting a scratch and getting it in your bloodstream.
And then when you appear with headaches and "rheumatic fever" they literally poisoned you with some more stuff like here:
>>16125250
>>16108919

>>15293796
>>15293805
because the description of rabbies is a non specific one.

If it is indead a specific disease it has specific symptoms, that a characteristic for the disease.
This is called:
>pathognomonic

Yet rabbies has no pathognomonic symptoms.
They are equal to any form of poisoning of an animal.
And I even would admit, that if an animal like a fox ate rat poison like it was used in the early 1900s, then yes it could transmit via bites.
Because back then the Rat poison contained lead arsenate, which is extremly neurotoxic.
And salivation is a mechanism to get rid of it, so lead arsenate will be in the saliva, and if you get bitten by an arsenic salivating animal, you get "injected" with arsenic.
Also they used lead arsenate back then as regular pesticide. Literally poisoning all of nature.
And back then the rabbies craze started.