Do healthy dogs carry rabies virus?

Rabies virus is a very virulent virus. It is extremely powerful. Once it infects humans and animals, it will cause 100% mortality, and there is no cure. The rabies virus is often carried by dogs and transmitted to humans through contact with humans, causing great harm to people. Do healthy dogs carry the rabies virus? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand it.

Of course not. Dogs and cats do not carry the rabies virus congenitally, and rabies cannot be inherited from mother to baby. In fact, for your dog or cat to get rabies, one condition must be met, that is, the wound or mucous membrane must be effectively contacted by the saliva or nerve tissue of an infectious (carrying virus) dog (or other mad animal) in order to have a chance of being infected with rabies. (Experiments and actual facts show that most cases of rabies can only be transmitted by being bitten by a mad animal. The reason why it is said that there is a chance is that it does not mean that you will be infected by contact with a rabies-carrying animal.)

There is indeed nothing wrong. Healthy dogs are of course not contagious. Dogs only carry the virus in their saliva during the onset period (a few dogs may also carry the virus in their saliva 2-5 days before the onset of the disease at the end of the incubation period). However, you can use the who 10-day observation method to determine it. That is, if the dog that bites you does not develop rabies within 10 days after biting you, you are not likely to be infected with rabies.

3. How is it usually transmitted, saliva or blood?

Contact transmission: For rabies, the virus cannot pass through intact skin. Effective contact refers to the contact of the saliva of an animal in the rabies stage with wounds or mucous membranes, which is usually a bite, or saliva contaminated with scratches and other wounds or mucous membranes.

Due to the particularity of the mechanism of rabies, it only appears in saliva and nerve tissue and cannot be transmitted in the blood. It is impossible to spread the virus through touching, contact with feces, or indirect contact.