RABIES

VACCINE
by

Dayana Gómez
TB2.1 - Colombo
 # D A T O S H I S T Ó R I C O S

HOW YOU CONTRACT IT?

The first symptoms of rabies are fatigue, sore throat, chills, vomiting and headache.
Rabies is contracted by exposure to the saliva of an infected animal, only if the bite penetrates the skin.
HOW IT IS
CREATED?
The rabies vaccine is grown with three
different kinds of cells that are used:
Human cells obtained from a single
elective abortion performed in the
early 1960s, chick embryo cells and
fetal lung cells. After the virus is grown,
it is purified away from the cells and
treated with a chemical called beta-
propiolactone that completely kills the
virus.
 DOSES

For those who have been exposed to

For those who have been exposed to rabies
without previous vaccination must get total rabies, but were previously vaccinated
People getting vaccinated as a preventive
of four shots. The first shot is given with rabies vaccine, two shots should be
measure should get two doses of vaccine.
immediately after exposure to a rabid given. The first shot should be given
The second should be given seven days animal, then again three days later, seven immediately after exposure. A second
after the first dose. days later, and 14 days later. The person
shot should be given three days later.
should also receive another shot called
rabies immune globulin (RIG). These people do not need to get RIG.