Re: Bitten by dog 1,5 months ago
Originally Posted by
Seibar
Apparently rabies is extinct in my country...what if the dog stuck its mouth on a dead rabid animal?
If you don't have rabies in your country, it's very unlikely the dog was exposed to an animal with rabies. Animals also almost never get rabies from contact with dead animals, anyway.
Originally Posted by
Seibar
EDIT: I wore pants when it bit me it it didn't puncture my skin
That statement alone indicates it would be impossible for you to have rabies. You have to have saliva enter the wound - if there is no wound, and there are pants in the way, there is no ability for the rabies virus to get in.
You did what you needed to do post-bite, and if the doctors had thought you were at risk they would have addressed it. But honestly, your risk is zero. I'm in the US and we very much have rabies here - even then the risk of humans catching rabies is still essentially zero, and the ones who do catch it from wildlife, not domestic dogs.
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