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Can you get rabies from touching the fountain water from which a rabid animal may have drunk from? if you have an old, small non -bleeding cut?
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Highly unlikely: Rabies is spread by infected bodily secretions such as blood, saliva, and mucus of infected animals, but this type of transmission although improbable, is not totally impossible, but almost impossible
Answered 5/14/2019
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