Re:US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries
by bsder on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:48PM
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> I have always wondered why rabies vaccination is not given standard in childhood.
Because the side effects from the rabies vaccine are far more likely than you getting rabies unknowingly in the US.
We're talking 25 total cases from 2009 to 2018--about 2 per year.
If you start jabbing a couple million children willy-nilly, 1 or 2 of them will die of anaphylaxis or a secondary infection from the needle prick every year on the best of vaccines. And rabies vaccines aren't particularly modern or sophisticated.
Because the side effects from the rabies vaccine are far more likely than you getting rabies unknowingly in the US.
We're talking 25 total cases from 2009 to 2018--about 2 per year.
If you start jabbing a couple million children willy-nilly, 1 or 2 of them will die of anaphylaxis or a secondary infection from the needle prick every year on the best of vaccines. And rabies vaccines aren't particularly modern or sophisticated.