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Re:US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries by lesuorac on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:52PM (#27509371)
The vaccine doesn't last your lifetime, you get a booster when exposed [1], and is super expensive (in US it's ~$1000 [2]).

But about the article, if < 0.05% of dogs have fake rabies certificates out of millions of dogs is this actually a problem? (Not to condone the behavior) Just because your dog doesn't have a rabies vaccine doesn't mean it does has rabies.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#After_exposure [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#Cost

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Re:US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries by alisonkisk on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:57PM (#27509409)
It's only expensive in USA because USA human healthcare system is crazy. It's €100 for humans in Europe, and it's cheap enough to give to every domestic dog several times.
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Re:US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries by quickthrowman on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:09PM (#27509519)
It’s maybe $40 for my cat to have a 2 year rabies vaccine. In the US we do a good enough job of animal vaccination that we don’t need to do human rabies vaccination, as another poster down thread said, 2 deaths per year per 350 million, the vaccine itself is more likely to cause death than the disease.
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Re:US bans dog imports from more than 100 countries by maxk42 on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:55PM (#27509392)
Wouldn't a simpler solution just be to ask people importing dogs to get them a new rabies vaccination?
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