Dyesebel, 35 years old came to the Emergency Department ambulatory and consulted because of a rat bite in her right leg. Aware that the incident could possibly cause rabies on the patient, the ED nurse recalls that rabies:

A. Is transmitted to humans by the infected teeth of the infected animal
B. Involves bacterial invasion of the neural pathways
C. Is a viral infection of the skin and nervous system is an invariably fatal viral neural infection