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Should I get vaccinated for rabies?
I figured I would ask here, since you people seem more likely to be knowledgeable about this sort of thing. No I haven't been bitten by anything, but it's a scary disease with almost no chance of recovery from it. A small chance of recovery has been possible only within these last 20 years, and even then, it's not a guarantee. And if I don't get to the hospital in time to either get vaccinated before symptoms show up, or get any sort of treatment (which still only offers a slim chance of recovery, which they may not even do in the first place), then I'll be fucked. I don't expect to be coming into contact with an animal that has rabies, but still, I feel it would be better to be protected from it just in case. I might be spending a lot more time outdoors at some point, in more isolated regions of the country.
My main question is how safe is the rabies vaccine? I never heard of it not working correctly, so I figured it's probably pretty good. I'm just wondering if you've ever known anyone who needed to get it. I figured it would be more likely that there would be people here who had known someone who needed it. If you're the one who got it, then obviously you did live to tell the tale, but do tell anyway about how you felt after getting it please. And if you've seen the following, how did a pre-exposure vaccination hold up to an actual exposure to a rabies infected animal?
I figured I would ask here, since you people seem more likely to be knowledgeable about this sort of thing. No I haven't been bitten by anything, but it's a scary disease with almost no chance of recovery from it. A small chance of recovery has been possible only within these last 20 years, and even then, it's not a guarantee. And if I don't get to the hospital in time to either get vaccinated before symptoms show up, or get any sort of treatment (which still only offers a slim chance of recovery, which they may not even do in the first place), then I'll be fucked. I don't expect to be coming into contact with an animal that has rabies, but still, I feel it would be better to be protected from it just in case. I might be spending a lot more time outdoors at some point, in more isolated regions of the country.
My main question is how safe is the rabies vaccine? I never heard of it not working correctly, so I figured it's probably pretty good. I'm just wondering if you've ever known anyone who needed to get it. I figured it would be more likely that there would be people here who had known someone who needed it. If you're the one who got it, then obviously you did live to tell the tale, but do tell anyway about how you felt after getting it please. And if you've seen the following, how did a pre-exposure vaccination hold up to an actual exposure to a rabies infected animal?
