How to prevent rabies in dogs This all sounds pretty doom-and-gloom. But the good news is that rabies is entirely preventable. In many countries and most states in the US, you’re required by law to vaccinate your pets against rabies. With a regular vaccine schedule, your dog can be pr...
Do we overdo rabies shots? ; A confusing law governing dog vaccines may have led to some overvaccination.JOSIE HUANG Staff Writer
Bitten or scratched by a dog, cat or monkey is a common problem seen in our travel clinic. Most important concern in this scenario is a rabies risk. Since it is a serious and untreatable disease. Once someone develop symptoms of rabies, it will always fatal. So we have to do e...
To prevent RABV from causing rabies, your provider will give you a series of vaccinations (shots). You'll also be given an antibody treatment near your wound if you've never been vaccinated before. These medications prevent an infection from traveling to your brain if you've been exposed to...
Rabies: This is recommended if there’s any particular reason you’ll be around animals while in China. Yellow Fever: There is low yellow fever risk in the country, but you’ll need this vaccination for China if you’re coming from a country that does. You can finda list of countries ...
It's important to find out who owns the dog after a bite, both for your safety and any legal reasons. Ask for the owner's name, phone number, and address. Check if the dog has had its rabies shots, as this could affect your medical care. ...
rabieschallengefund.org is an organization lead by veterinarians who are studying vaccinations on nonhuman animals, which relies upon funding to keep the study going longer; so if this is something you're inclined to participate in, please go and do so (or simply go and learn for now!) And...
As always, I apologize for the bizarre blurriness my blogging program lends to page shots (as opposed to photographs, which it passes along to you in loving detail); to try to ease it, I shall try making the pictures a little bigger this time around. If you are s...
Long term immunization requires 2 shots, with the second shot given approximately two weeks after the first. What is the rationale behind giving 2 shots? What what type of vaccine is used to prevent yellow fever. How often and at what age sh...
In 1796, an English physician and scientist, Edward Jenner, devised a way to prevent smallpox that was caused by the variola virus and was highly contagious worldwide. He observed that milkmaids who had had cowpox were somewhat protected f...