• Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeOP
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    Rabies travels through the body though, it’s not just in one aspect of the body. That’s why people often say that, if you get bit in the foot, you have a longer time to react in time than if you get bit somewhere like in the neck. The death comes when the virus’ influence reaches the brain, after which it’s sadly too late. So without a doubt there is more that could spread it than saliva, we just don’t get exposed to most other bodily fluids under normal circumstances.

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      1 year ago

      Rabies travels through the body though, it’s not just in one aspect of the body. That’s why people often say that, if you get bit in the foot, you have a longer time to react in time than if you get bit somewhere like in the neck.

      Yea, pretty much.

      The death comes when the virus’ influence reaches the brain, after which it’s sadly too late.

      Yup

      So without a doubt there is more that could spread it than saliva, we just don’t get exposed to most other bodily fluids under normal circumstances.

      This is 100% FUD and nothing else. Rabies does not life in other bodily fluids. It lives in our nerve tissue, brain tissue and saliva. Not in our blood, not in our pee, not in our feces, not in our semen, not in vaginal fluids, not in pus, really not in any bodily fluids other than saliva.