Cooking meat well done will destroy the rabies virus, and most other such infections.

One aspect of the training the Selous Scouts of South Africa go through is to cook and eat a baboon that's been dead and hanging in a tree for three days. Three days in the African sun has got to get that meat turned, but it is still edible after being boiled well. I understand that it cannot be recooked and eaten again, for there is a parasite of some sort that can survive such process.

Whatever a 3 day dead baboon tastes like, it's still gotta be better than the taste of that Armadillo I tried to eat, once...(shudders)