 [ Symptoms ] can rabies be transmitted from animal to human via food my niece ate a bit of cat food from an outside cat bowl   i put wet + dry cat food outside each morning for our indooroutdoor cat  each night the cat comes in so i keep 2nd food bowl inside i empty leftover food from the outside bowl into the inside bowl then wash outside bowl in prep for next day    on fri 1apr2016 my 2 5yo niece got in room where indoor catbowl is and ate tiny bit of cat food   could a rabid animal is saliva have gotten in the food when it was outside then ~16 hours later introduce the rabies virus to my niece via oral ingestion [ Disease ] people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or some other lung conditions often take their medications using a device called a metered dose inhaler an mdi is a handheld device that delivers a specific amount of medication in aerosol form rather than as a pill or capsule the mdi consists of a pressurized canister inside a plastic case with a mouthpiece attached with an mdi you press on the device while inhaling the copd medication directly into your lungs its portability makes it easy to use anywhere anytime mdis use a chemical propellant to push medication out of the inhaler the two common chemical propellants are cfcs and hfcs because cfcs cause damage to the ozone layer they are being being phased out and replaced by hfcs