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Rabies vaccination after 1.5 year
When my sons was three years old he had been bitten( little stratch) by dog and he didn't get rabies vaccination. Now it had been almost one and half year after bitten dog. Will he still be protected with vaccination if he have not shown sign and symptoms?
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Hi thanks for writing to Practo. According to books The incubation period of rabies in humans is generally 20–60 days. However, fulminant disease can become symptomatic within 5–6 days; more worrisome, in 1%–3% of cases the incubation period is >6 months. Confirmed rabies has occurred as long as 7 years after exposure, but the reasons for this long latency are unknown. So if not as post exposure, u can surely take 3 doses of vaccine as pre exposure vaccination and protect baby .
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