I just picked up my garbage and rebagged it because raccoons had gotten at it. I wasn’t even thinking to put gloves on because I didn’t think rabies was a thing without a bite. I’m so scared because I realized I have a little cut on my finger. I’m afraid that the garbage might have had rabid saliva on it and gotten into my cut! There were no raccoons in sight, so I didn’t come into direct contact with them. But I didn’t know until tonight that you can get it by getting saliva in a cut.
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Fresh saliva, maybe. Saliva on garbage that has been long abandoned by raccoons? Absolutely not. It doesn't live that long outside the body. I googled it for you - rabies virus only lives outside the body for a couple of seconds.
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