Rabies - VEC Vaccine Notes | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about rabies and the vaccines and treatments that protect against it. She also discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines. Watch the episode to find out: How a mom saved her son by begging for the first rabies vaccine to be tested on him and the irony of that son’s adult career Why fewer than 15 unvaccinated people have ever survived a rabies infection and the most famous person to have died from rabies Why it’s important that pet cats and dogs get vaccinated against rabies How the two-month long incubation period is used to shape vaccine recommendations Who should get the rabies vaccine without a known exposure and why To learn more about rabies and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-rabies. Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes. For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu. Subscribe to our Parents PACK newsletter, https://bit.ly/3KfLUoO.