Question

Where do animals get infected with rabies to start with? now, someone else already tried to ask this, but it seems as if no one really read the question. How does a non infected animal get rabies? without getting bitten or scratched or anything else. everything has to start somewhere, where did this start and what causes the infection to get into the saliva and where...

Answer 1

 Rabies is a virus.  The infective agents :
- saliva,
- urine,
-blood,
and mothers passing on the virus to their young in the fetal stage. Activities such as grooming, nursing, having sex, eating the same food, fighting, and coming into contact with urine from an infected animal can spread the virus.