The rabies virus is short-lived when exposed to open air—it can only survive in saliva and dies when the animal's saliva dries up.
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Basically you have to take rabies vaccine and immunoglobulin within 24 hours if the bite is on hand face neck, and within 72 hours if it on lower extremities.
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