Rabies is preventable with a shot in the arm and the vacine lasts for 3 months , available at any travel clinic or you GP.
In this case prevention is essential; as cure is often difficult and very very painful. Rabies serum is adminstered post bite into the scotmach muscles where it the virus multiplies. The course of injections is horrifically painful and usally is 4 a day for about 3-4 days. The cure is not garanteed.
So get you and the kids jabbed before you go, The same goes for any other dieasie that can be enocluated for. Especialiy Measles Mumps and rubella if you kids did not have MMR.
MMR is worth the risks what ever the junk scare mongers say. I had mumps at 25 and now cant have kids. Measles kills thousands in the 3rd world.
BD
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