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Rabies risk indirect exposure
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Does rabies indirect exposure need to worry!!
If we have cuts in hand and touch any thing outside. Like door knobs, chairs, other inanimate objects in medical where many patients are coming for ARV.
Also i washed my rabies contaminated clothes in washing machine. Does the machine contaminated now ? Does virus are still in machine. If we wash other clothes does it safe to use now ?
Please answer!!
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There are categories of bites. Exposing directly on mucous membranes can be a risk.
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Not spread by other ways . Only through bite
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