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Rabies vaccine
Can I take rabies vaccine as precaution or as a prevention , what is the procedure, do I need a prescription for that?
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Pre-exposure vaccination may be offered to high risk groups like laboratory staff handling the virus and infected material, clinicians and persons attending to human rabies cases, veterinarians, animal handlers and catchers
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Pre-exposure vaccination is administered as one full dose of vaccine intramuscularly or 0.1 ml intra-dermally on days 0, 7 and either day 21 or 28.
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Rabies vaccine is administered only after an animal bite. Taking it prior to the bite is not useful.
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Inj ARV can be administered at any hospital, you dont need a prescription.
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Wash the wound with soap and water in case of bite.
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