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Anonymous asked in PetsDogs · 9 years ago

Can rabies virus survive outside their host and live in a dry condition for a long time?

Can rabies virus survive outside

their host and live in a dry

condition(like people's finger

which is dry) for a long time?I

want to know in such

condition,these virus are

infection or not.thanks~

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    Being a world-renowned detective, couldn't you just investigate it?

  • TK
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The rabies virus does not live outside a host body for more than a few hours.

  • 9 years ago

    rabies virus does not live outside a host body for more than a few hours

  • 9 years ago

    Rabies is transmitted through the siliva of an infected animal. If an animal with rabies bites another animal, they will get it. It has to be from the infected animals bite, into another animals flesh.

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