Rabies Rabies enters your body through a cut scrach or mucous membranes (same as the eye or the mouth). From there is travels to the central nervous system (brain and or spinal cord). Once the infection is established in the brain, the virus travels down the nerves from the brain and multiplies in many different organs. The salivary glands are the organs most important in the spread of rabies from one animal to another. When an infected animal bites another animal the rabies is transmitted in the infected animals. Scratches by claws of rabid animals are dangerous because a lick their claws. Saliva applied to a mucous membrane suck as th