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I ate food a stray cat may have touched – do I need a rabies shot?
Eating after a cat generally does not require a rabies vaccine unless the cat had rabies and your wound contacted its saliva. Avoid eating food a cat has touched.
Can Rabbits Get Rabies?
Rabbits rarely carry rabies since the virus mainly lives in cats and dogs and spreads through saliva. Still, clean any bite wound with soap and iodine.
What Happens If a Border Collie Catches a Virus?
Dogs face distemper, parvo, rabies, and coronavirus. Distemper brings sneezing, cough, and fever; parvo causes vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and low white cells; rabies brings light/water fear and biting; coronavirus causes vomiting and lethargy.
My Cat Suddenly Stopped Eating, Then Started Foaming at the Mouth After an Injection—Could It Be Rabies?
The symptoms resemble rabies, but a definitive diagnosis needs a CSF antibody test; positive IgG confirms it. Rabies is fatal and untreatable, so report suspected cases to authorities immediately.
Do Hamsters Carry Rabies?
New or soon-to-be hamster owners ask: do hamsters carry rabies? The answer is no - hamsters are rodents but do not carry rabies, though they can carry other viruses. Here is what they may carry.
My cat played with a neighbor’s unvaccinated cat—could it catch rabies?
Cats can get rabies but less often than dogs; it spreads through bites or saliva. After infection a cat shows odd behavior, low appetite, foaming, unsteady movement. Cats rarely contact other animals so infection is uncommon, but if the neighbor's cat had rabies and bit yours while infectious, yours could be infected. The chance is small since pet cats seldom go out; don't worry too much.
My dog was bitten by a Corgi; it’s been three days, and its behavior is abnormal — it startles easily, sleeps then suddenly jumps up spinning and hiding, though eating, drinking, and bathroom habits are normal. It was vaccinated against rabies as a puppy. Could it have rabies?
A dog bitten by a rabid dog has some risk of rabies infection. Based on your description, the abnormal behavior after the bite could be rabies or nerve damage. If bitten by another dog, take it to the vet promptly to properly treat the wound and get the rabies vaccine; for deep wounds also give a tetanus shot to prevent infection.
While feeding my cat it ran off and I pulled it hard, and it scratched my skin, drawing a little blood. I’m rinsing with water; it’s usually well-behaved and once when I stepped on it it didn’t scratch or bite. I’m afraid of rabies — it was vaccinated before but long ago. Do I need the vaccine?
Generally, household cats are unlikely to carry the virus, and the chance of a person being infected from a cat scratch is small, but the wound should be cleaned and disinfected promptly. Since the cat's vaccine was long ago, it's hard to guarantee no rabies virus, so for safety it's best to get the rabies vaccine soon. Also, treat the wound first with soapy water and iodine or alcohol.
My cat had a rabies vaccine and fought strays; its claw grazed me with a tiny bit of blood, can I get rabies?
Within six months of a cat's rabies vaccination, a person bitten or scratched by it generally will not get rabies, since the cat has antibodies. Minor wounds need only local disinfection. But no vaccine is 100% effective, so to be safe get the rabies vaccine yourself promptly.
Is this puppy having a rabies outbreak? Please see the video.
There is no video content here, and a single video alone cannot confirm whether a dog has rabies. To diagnose rabies, you can make a preliminary judgment from clinical signs and further analyze antibody titers in the dog's cerebrospinal fluid.