Most people don’t need to be reminded on this. That is, most.

From South Carolina’s The Island Packet:

Sixteen people who fed, kissed and held a baby raccoon on Hilton Head Island now are being treated by a physician after the animal tested positive for rabies. . . .

"Someone adopted a baby raccoon and passed it around to everyone they knew and kissed it on the lips," Boatwright said. "There was a lot of affectionate handling, kissing it and feeding it. Part of that is it was three weeks old, and they inserted fingers into the raccoon's mouth. Saliva is one way that rabies spreads."