Most cases of rabies occur through bite wounds to people or animals. Contact with saliva from a rabid animal rarely results in transmission of the rabies virus, but it is possible if the saliva touches mucous membranes or a wound. Non-bite exposure to rabies can occur through inhalation of the rabies virus. Generally, this cause of transmission only happens in laboratory workers who are researching the virus. Exposure to the rabies virus cannot occur by contact with the blood, urine or feces of a rabid animal. In rare instances human to human rabies transmission has happened through the transplant of corneas or organs (Rabies - CDC).
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| Major animal reservoirs of rabies around the world. (http://www.thebluedog.org/userfiles/images/clin_cases/Rabiesmapcomp.jpg) |
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