Can you eat rabid dog meat?

The main concern about whether dog meat can be eaten from a dog that has rabies is whether eating dog meat will lead to the transmission of rabies. Although rabies virus is a more suitable environment in the dog’s body as well as in the brain, the rabies virus can be completely inactivated by the operation of boiling. In this case, a person will not get rabies from eating dog meat. If the dog is not boiled or is not boiled completely, the dog’s body still contains a certain amount of rabies virus, and it is perfectly possible for a person to be infected with rabies through the mucous membrane of the digestive tract. Even after the boiling operation, if the hygiene of the dog meat is not so careful and the raw and cooked plates are not separated, it is possible that the surface of the cooked dog meat contains a certain amount of rabies virus, and in this case there is also a slight possibility that a person can be infected with rabies. Therefore, to be on the safe side, dogs with rabies are not very recommended to be eaten. If the operating environment is strictly ensured and the dog is boiled more thoroughly, eating the dog meat will not lead to rabies infection.