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The vaccine doesn't last your lifetime, you get a booster when exposed [1], and is super expensive (in US it's ~$1000 [2]). But about the article, if < 0.05% o
by lesuorac 5y ago
The vaccine doesn't last your lifetime, you get a booster when exposed [1], and is super expensive (in US it's ~$1000 [2]).
But about the article, if < 0.05% of dogs have fake rabies certificates out of millions of dogs is this actually a problem? (Not to condone the behavior) Just because your dog doesn't have a rabies vaccine doesn't mean it does has rabies.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#After_exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#After_exposure
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#Cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#Cost
- maxk42 5y agoWouldn't a simpler solution just be to ask people importing dogs to get them a new rabies vaccination?
- alisonkisk 5y agoIt's only expensive in USA because USA human healthcare system is crazy. It's €100 for humans in Europe, and it's cheap enough to give to every domestic dog several times.
- quickthrowman 5y agoIt’s maybe $40 for my cat to have a 2 year rabies vaccine. In the US we do a good enough job of animal vaccination that we don’t need to do human rabies vaccination, as another poster down thread said, 2 deaths per year per 350 million, the vaccine itself is more likely to cause death than the disease.