Rabies Question answer please!

[stephennguyen13]

So recently my pet chickens have been slaughtered and eaten by raccoons at night. However the raccoon left one chicken alive. I quickly tended the chickens wounds(torn off wing and broken leg) with hydrogen peroxide and some medical tape. Is it possible that the saliva from the raccoon could some how enter my body? I was wearing gloves the whole time and I have no cuts. And how long can rabies stay in saliva for? I found my chicken about 2 hours after the attack. And what is the possibility of a wild raccoon in california having rabies? And is it possible for the doctors to check to see if I have rabies? Please give me answer i am so worried.

 

[stephennguyen13]

Please answer i am so stressed out right now. What are the chances of me having rabies?

 

[nuchickontheblock]

If it were me, I would call my health care provider and ask those same questions.

 

[leadwolf1]

Calm down. You are safe. Chickens can not get rabies so, you are safe there. The rabies virus is pretty weak so I would say that it is dead..sunlight will kill it. If you took precautions, which you did, and you don't have any open wounds that you rolled around in the wound, which you didn't, you will be just fine. Treat your hen, I hope she survives for you. The hard part now is to figure out how the coon is getting your chickens and stop it from happening!!!

 

[nuchickontheblock]

I'm sorry that you have had this horrible experience. It sounds like you did all you could to protect yourself.

 

[stephennguyen13]

What are the chance of a wild raccoon having rabies?

 

[leadwolf1]

Pretty good, actually. They are one of the species that commonly carry rabies. However, if the raccoon was behaving normally, the odds are that he wasn't infected. Do you have a reason to suspect that he was rabid? Strange behavior, out in the daytime, acting like he wasn't afraid?

If he was out at night, eating chicken, I would say he was fine. Of course, without his head, no one can answer that question definitively. I can tell you that you are at a very, very low risk of contracting rabies from your hen.

 

[bairo]

Calm down. You are safe. Chickens can not get rabies so, you are safe there. The rabies viurs is pretty weak so I would say that it is dead..sunlight will kill it. If you took precautions, which you did, and you don't have any open wounds that you rolled around in the wound, which you didn't, you will be just fine. Treat your hen, I hope she survives for you. The hard part now is to figure out how the coon is getting your chickens and stop it from happening!!!

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