There is no need to worry about getting rabies when bitten by a hamster, which in this case is just a domesticated pet hamster. If you are bitten by a wild hamster, you should also suspect this possibility and get the person vaccinated against rabies. If it is a domesticated pet hamster, you generally do not have to worry about transmitting rabies to a person. Because domesticated pet hamsters have no possible way of acquiring the rabies virus, they will not be infected by animals carrying the rabies virus, and it is not possible to transmit rabies to a person through a bite. Wild hamsters, because they are in the wild, have a very small chance of acquiring the rabies virus, and in the case of a bite, can be given a rabies vaccine to prevent a rabies attack. The vast majority of rabies cases in humans are dog bites, followed by cat bites, and very rarely, according to statistics, rat bites, but there have been no reports of hamsters biting people and transmitting rabies to them.