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Can rabies be transmitted by drinking water from a bowl that a raccoon/wild animal was drinking out of? there saliva would be in that water.

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Dr. Katharine Cox answered

Specializes in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Possibly: Check out the CDC site but to be safe be immunized. Avoid drinking out of the same bowel. All the best

Answered 6/28/2020

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Per the CDC:: Yes. "It's possible for the rabies virus to be transmitted through water if an animal is drinking out of a water dish at the same time as another rabid animal or shortly after the rabid animal was drinking. The virus will not survive for long in water, but it will last long enough to possibly infect another animal."

Answered 6/28/2020

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