It is well-known that like most infectious diseases, rabies can attack several species.

The paper, co-authored by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Western Michigan University, provides among the first estimates for any infectious disease of how often a disease can be transmitted across species in complex, multi-host communities and the likelihood of disease establishment in a new host species.
"Rabies happens to be an ideal system to answer these questions," said Streicker. "Rabies occurs across the country, affects many different host species and is known to mutate frequently." Although cases of rabies in humans are rare in the U.S., bats are the most common source of these infections, according to the CDC.
Source-Eurekalert