Rabies is fatal if untreated.
Rabies is a nasty piece of work.
It is fatal, with an incubation period is very unpredicatable. Reasons for the vaccine: it might save your life. Reasons agaisnt: its expensive, it hurts, but what what tipped the scales for us was that it is no guarantee. If you are in the sticks and a day or more from a hospital for the obligatory post exposure treatment, you then find that the vaccine, which is more of an extended grace period (as I see it) is suddenly no longer any good.
My best advice would be preventative action: for starters be very weary of any animal that does not seem scared of you, or any animal behaving eratically (that goes for drivers too!!  ).
I'#m not saying get the jab or don't but certainly don't rely on it as a get out of jail free card the way we do with typhoid and diptheria jabs, coz it ain't!
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