On 9/14/07, Robyn Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > . The > Missouri Division of Health Central Laboratory has never isolated > rabies from a bird, fox squirrel, gray or ground squirrel, chipmunk or > field mouse, wild rat, rabbit" > >
I was told this is because these animals are so small the incubation period is very brief between onset (communicable) and death. It takes a horse for instance an average of five days between onset and death but they can have an incubation period of a couple of years. The incubation period in a human can be as much as seventeen years (longest known documented incubation). In the incubation period the animal is not communicable. it is only communicable when it enters the saliva glands. I dont see how poop could be communicable unless it was fresh, still body temperature, and entered your body thru an open sore or you injested it. kinda farfetched and even gross :) But when Stali was dying he drooled in a feed bucket onto feed. i later fed other horses out of that bucket and when i later learned he had died of rabies and freaked i called the vet and health officials and they assured me that even one degree drop in body temp the rabies virus dies. janice -- yipie tie yie yo
