Updates On 18th Jan 2018

How Do You Test an Animal for Rabies?

Rabies is a disease that affects the nervous tissues, meaning that it’s not found in blood, feces or urine. As you can probably imagine, this makes it quite difficult to test animals for the virus. To complicate matters further, potential testing outlets, such as saliva, don’t yield results as quickly or as accurately as brain matter. Therefore, an animal’s head must be removed, post-mortem, in order to gauge its infection status accurately. For more than 40 years, this has been the only accepted rabies testing method for animals in the United States [source: CDC].

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