Why are rabie shots given?

Answer 1

They're not. Newest treatment is 4 shots in the arm or butt over two weeks.

Some people are afraid to seek treatment for rabies exposure because they've read or heard about 23 painful shots in the stomach. That is not true anymore.

"Post-exposure" treatment is called for after a bite or lick from a suspected rabid animal. Since the 1980s, in the United States, it has consisted of a series of only five fairly painless shots in the arm. A shot of specific anti-rabies globulin is also administered in the buttocks once at the start of treatment.

Answer 2

That was an age old story. The old time vaccine called a semple's vaccine was given in the wall of your abdomen. Doctors used to give 14 such injections and the dose was up to 5 ml per injection. They used to be painful and the efficacy was very less. Now you have take very small dose in the arm and few injections, maximum six.

Answer 3

the reason the shot is administerd to animals is so a small amount of the rabbies
disease in the animals body can be immune to the disease is it incounterd it

Answer 4

it no longer is