Can rabies be carried through dirt or dust if you kick or pick up some?
Like, if an infected animal went through it.
Like, if an infected animal went through it.
Elaine M
No, like 99% of viruses it lives less than 15 seconds outside of the body. They don't spread/infect when dehydrated, the virus dies. Which is why you have to be bitten or have blood from an infected animal get into an open wound on you.
daniel g
No. the virus can only survive in a mammal.
The main vector is being bitten by a rabid animal or getting body fluids of an infected animal into eye tear ducts or mucous membranes.
It has to enter the blood system to cause infection.
Smeghead
The rabies virus does not remain infectious when it leaves the system of a living animal.
?
If you walk around in fresh rabid spit and it enters a break in the skin yes. If you create an aresol with fresh rabid bat poop yes
pearl
No, you must be bitten by a rabid animal.