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Can Rabies Infection Spread Through Feeding Animals?
Can you get rabies from petting an animal who may be suspected to have rabies or from kissing them on the back of the head? Or from hand feeding them and then later on touching your eyes etc without washing your hands if there was no wet saliva from the animal on your skin?
Wed, 27 Apr 2016
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It's UNLIKELY to spread through feeding the animals.
The rabies virus is primarily transmitted from the rabid animal’s saliva when it bites or scratches someone. Licks to wounds or grazed and broken skin, or to the lining of the mouth and nose, can also transmit the disease.
The virus is UNLIKELY to spread by touching or feeding the pet animals or kissing them on the back of their heads or by the licks with saliva on intact skin or by contact of intact skin with secretions or excretions of such animals.
Please see that your pet animal is properly vaccinated against rabies and the efficacy of the vaccine is confirmed by the lab evidence.
Hope I could answer your query.
It's UNLIKELY to spread through feeding the animals.
The rabies virus is primarily transmitted from the rabid animal’s saliva when it bites or scratches someone. Licks to wounds or grazed and broken skin, or to the lining of the mouth and nose, can also transmit the disease.
The virus is UNLIKELY to spread by touching or feeding the pet animals or kissing them on the back of their heads or by the licks with saliva on intact skin or by contact of intact skin with secretions or excretions of such animals.
Please see that your pet animal is properly vaccinated against rabies and the efficacy of the vaccine is confirmed by the lab evidence.
Hope I could answer your query.
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