I was getting a rabies vaccine, but the doctor said I didn t need a blood test after the shot

It seems that some brands of vaccines cannot be checked for antibodies after vaccination, which may be the reason. You're better off asking your doctor though.

Special reminder: Being injured by an animal or bitten by a person may cause tetanus, and tetanus antitoxin is required. The incubation period for tetanus is usually 7-8 days, but there are as short as only 24 hours or as long as months or years. Once the onset is difficult, it can be life-threatening.

To find out if the vaccine is effective, the serum anti-rabies antibody level can be checked about half a month after the full course of vaccination. If serum anti-rabies virus antibodies are negative, a booster of 2 to 3 needles can be given to positively convert the antibodies. Generally speaking, if you have been vaccinated with a qualified rabies vaccine for the whole course (5 shots), especially if you have not had rabies for more than half a month after using serum, the probability of failure of the rabies vaccine is very small.

Dog rabies vaccination can reduce the chance of developing the disease, and the immunization schedule is that live dogs are first vaccinated at 3-4 months of age, again at one year of age, and then every 2-3 years. The inactivated vaccine is immunized after the first immunization in 3-4 months old dogs, the second immunization is carried out 3-4 weeks after the first immunization, and the second immunization is carried out every other year after the second immunization.

Generally, a blood test is required one week after the rabies vaccination, so it is recommended that you go to the doctor for clarification.

No need to test, trust doctors, doctors are compassionate compared to ordinary people.

As long as there is no illness after 20 days of the full course of vaccine, it means that there is no virus when the dog bites and you are not infected with rabies virus, otherwise the vaccine will not be completed or will soon become ill, because the natural immunity of people during the vaccination period is the lowest, if there is a wild virus that is sick, you will get sick during this time period, you can rule out the possibility of infection, as for whether the vaccine has ***, it depends on your own physique!

After the imported rabies vaccine, the doctor said that there is no need for blood tests, and there is no need for blood tests to test antibodies for domestic vaccines, because the effect of the vaccine is now very positive, and Article 22 of the Ministry of Health's "Rabies Exposure Prevention and Treatment Work Specification" also makes it clear that testing is not required. If you are really unsure, you can also go to your local CDC for testing.

The following text comes from an authoritative expert on rabies: Professor Zu Shuxian.

1 Healthy dogs do not carry the rabies virus and therefore do not transmit rabies. Therefore, the instructions for various rabies vaccines clearly state in the article "Vaccination Target" that they are used to judge people who have been "bitten or scratched by rabies or other mad animals", and Songliang does not refer to healthy dogs. If you have a lot of rabies in your area, you can also get a pre-exposure vaccination as a precaution, which is another matter.

Some people may say that we check the rabies virus positive rate of 10 or 30, it is a "superficially healthy" dog, it may be in the incubation period or the early stage of the disease, and foreign books also say that dogs and cats detoxify their saliva just a few days before the appearance of neurological symptoms? This statement is also difficult to explain. Even in endemic areas, it is unlikely that such a high proportion of dogs will be infected with rabies, which does not explain the fact that rabies occurs sporadically.

2 If you are scratched and bitten by your own or neighbor's healthy dog or cat, you can rest assured that it is still healthy and healthy for 10 days. Some questioners said that he or she had been exposed for months or more or had been scratched and bitten by a dog or cat, and that the animal was fine, so there was no need to worry and not to be vaccinated. If it is a stray dog or the dog that bites you has run away and does not know the condition of the dog, please go to the CDC immediately for consultation.

3 Based on now reliable studies and published by the World Health Organization, the accepted maximum incubation period is 6 years. In the past twenty or thirty years, the book has not been accepted because of the lack of rigorous evidence. In the future, it is also possible for rabies patients to prove that their incubation period is more than 6 years, but only if there is conclusive evidence and it is recognized.

Some people ask questions that have little to do with the incubation period, but whether you have been bitten by a rabid animal?

4 Finally, please remember the fact that there are almost no reports of rabies in our cities, especially in large cities, and even if there are, only a handful. But this is not to say that the dogs and people in the city have special immunity, but because the current conditions do not meet the ecology of rabies, in layman's terms, there are no conditions for the transmission of rabies.

This is one of the important principles of epidemiology. In fact, any place that can create an ecology that is not conducive to rabies like a city is to keep dogs in yards and get vaccinated against rabies. It can be done with hard work.