Rabies virus is not usually transmitted indirectly through objects. Rabies virus is transmitted by animals carrying the rabies virus, such as dogs, cats, and bats, by scratching, biting, and licking broken skin and mucous membranes. A small number of people become infected during the slaughter, skinning, and cutting of rabies-infected animals. The rabies virus is difficult to survive on normal environmental items, it is easily inactivated and thus loses its infectiousness, and it is unable to infect humans through intact skin. The rabies virus loses its infectiousness quickly on the surface of an item, and it is generally difficult for a normal person to become infected even if they come into contact with a rabies-carrying item without a break in the skin or contact with mucous membranes. If you are scratched or bitten by a rabies-carrying animal and there is a risk of rabies infection, you should clean and disinfect the wound in a timely manner and receive rabies vaccination to prevent rabies infection.