“The department reported it has contacted the victim’s co-workers and tested them.”
I didn’t think there was a test for rabies. I thought they gave rabies shots as a preventative in case of contact.
Symptons for rabies don’t show up for a good 10 days or so.
In the mean time, it is not detectable. By the time it reaches the brain is when the symptms appear, and by that time the vaccine is useless. Before the 10 days is over however, the vaccine is 95% successful, and does not have to be given in the stomach.
To detect rabies, they need brain tissue. Rabies is luminous under ultraviolet light. As far as I know, that is still the only way to detect it today, from brain tissue.