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Is it possible for an insect to carry rabid animal's saliva and Infect you in your mouth on a sunny day ?
Can this indirect transmission happen?
Or is it only the direct salivary transmission (directly rabid dog licking your mouth) possible to transmit rabies?
Is just regular mouth gargle with water would clean up ??
Can a spec of saliva enough to infect you ??
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Well, fortunately Rabies don't happen that way . A dog needs to bite you to give you rabies and that too that dog should have the disease . An insect kissing on your lips or even if you ingest rabies virus have give you rabies because rabies virus will be digested by our gastric juice .
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Dr. Madhavi Vidiyala
Veterinary Physician
19 yrs exp
Bangalore
Indirect transmission through insects is not possible..Rabies virus can spread by direct transmission when Infected person Saliva Enters body through broken Skin,Mucousmembranes of Mouth and Eyes..So you need not worry..
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Dr. M. Madeena Begum
Veterinary Physician
12 yrs exp
Chennai
Rabies is not a contagious disease. It transmitted only from rabid dig fresh saliva contact to a bleeding wound. It happens only when the bite a person or lick the fresh wound of a person.
Other things are not possible.
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Dr. Sonali Choudhary
Veterinary Physician
7 yrs exp
Jammu
Insects, objects don't carry rabies. Indirect transmission isn't possible. Yes, exposure to rabid animal is required for transmission. Yes, that is enough to clean it.
A spec of saliva from a rabid animal is capable of causing rabies through mouth or eyes.
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