Best,
I recently saw a program on TV that was about rabies (rabies). I saw in it that you can get this by (usually) dogs, bats, foxes, …
Now I wondered: suppose a person has the rabies virus in him but has no symptoms yet, can he pass this on to other people (e.g. by sneezing, by shaking hands, by saliva particles that end up on your face while speaking? if that person is close to you…)?
Thanks for your reply!
Asker: Charlotte, 25 years old
Answer
In theory, it is possible that an infected person can transmit the virus to another person by biting, or by some other means of saliva transmission. But there is no evidence that this ever happened. There are, however, documented cases of human-to-human transmission as a result of tissue transplantation.
Answered by
Prof. dr. dr. Luc Bouwens
Biomedical Sciences
Free University of Brussels
Avenue des Pélain 2 1050 Ixelles
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Avenue des Pélain 2 1050 Ixelles
http://www.vub.ac.be/
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