Pre-exposure vaccination is a highly effective measure in lowering the risk of this disease following a bite or scratch from a suspected rabid animal. Pre-exposure vaccination does NOT just “buy you time”. Vaccinations against rabies has taken on added importance since human rabies immunoglobulin (the antidote called HRIG) has been in limited supply in the countries where the rabies risk is highest – East Asia (India, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia including Bali, etc.), Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

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