The most common mode of transmission of Rabies is the bite of a rabid animal. People working as veterinarians, people who handle animals, farmers and pest exterminators could be at a high risk of getting the disease owing to the nature of their professions. Since rabies is fatal in nature, therefore the safest alternative is get immunized against the deadly disease. |
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In the United States, there is availability of two kinds of vaccinations, both varying in their preparation techniques. These vaccines are developed from inactivated or dead virus and are administered in the deltoid muscle. This preventive measure is effective only when the individual goes through the complete series of 3 injections followed by booster dosages if necessary. In contrast to this form of preventive treatment, in circumstances when an individual is exposed to the virus the line of treatment followed varies to a slight extent. Firstly, a rabies immune globulin is administered immediately at the site of the bite. This is followed by 4 or 5 doses of the rabies vaccine usually administered on the same day as the exposure, followed by other shots on days 3, 7, and 14.
As per the statistics of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), approximately seventy-four percent of people have reported experiencing itching, redness, soreness or inflammation after the administration of the rabies vaccination. Another 40 percent have also experienced some other side effects such as pain in the abdomen, giddiness, headache, faintness and muscular pain. A small segment of people are known to be affected with fever with chills, tiredness, pain in the joints and inflammation. An extremely rare repercussion of the rabies vaccine comes in the form of sickness on the same lines as Guillain-Barré syndrome. However, the patient normally recovers well in some time.
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