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Minor nit: it's important to take the vaccine even if 24 hours has passed, and you're most likely going to be fine. The vaccine takes 10 to 22 days to produce a
by jeswin 8y ago
Minor nit: it's important to take the vaccine even if 24 hours has passed, and you're most likely going to be fine. The vaccine takes 10 to 22 days to produce antibodies, but the disease gives you more time than that (weeks to months).
So to summarize, the protocol is to vaccinate even if late.
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoSeveral in my family were exposed to rabies via trying to save a rabid calf (before we knew it was rabies). We started the vaccination protocol ~3 days later. That was more than 2 years ago, and we are all fine. Definitely not only a 24hr window, thankfully. Was still pretty scary...