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Four shots enough to ward off rabies
Health
By Anne Harding, Health.com
March 28, 2011 4:14 p.m. EDT
(Health.com) -- Four doses of rabies vaccine are enough to prevent infection in most kids exposed to the deadly virus, according to a new policy statement from the nation's largest organization of pediatricians.
Between 20,000 and 40,000 people in the U.S. receive the rabies vaccine each year, usually after being bitten by an animal. The standard vaccine regimen has been five shots over a 28-day period, but recent research has shown that the vaccine works in just four (or even three) shots.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that children who have potentially been exposed to rabies receive four shots in two weeks. (Children with weakened immune systems should continue to receive the five-shot regimen, the group says.) This recommendation affirms a set of 2010 guidelines for all ages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Four shots enough to ward off rabies
Health
By Anne Harding, Health.com
March 28, 2011 4:14 p.m. EDT
(Health.com) -- Four doses of rabies vaccine are enough to prevent infection in most kids exposed to the deadly virus, according to a new policy statement from the nation's largest organization of pediatricians.
Between 20,000 and 40,000 people in the U.S. receive the rabies vaccine each year, usually after being bitten by an animal. The standard vaccine regimen has been five shots over a 28-day period, but recent research has shown that the vaccine works in just four (or even three) shots.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that children who have potentially been exposed to rabies receive four shots in two weeks. (Children with weakened immune systems should continue to receive the five-shot regimen, the group says.) This recommendation affirms a set of 2010 guidelines for all ages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...