Can dog bites contaminate rabies even though it did not cause open wound?
The only way that you can develop rabies is if the virus enters your bloodstream. The only way it can enter your bloodstream is if your sin has been broken. The break in skin doesn’t have to be from a dogbite. The wound could have come from something unrelated and if saliva from an infected animal (and it doesn’t have to be a dog, either) comes into contact with an open area, it can access the blood. So, yes a dog bite can cause a rabies infection even though the bite itself doesn’t break the skin IF there is an open wound already there AND the saliva makes contact with the open wound.
